Flemish text to speech with six voices from Belgium
Six Flemish voices, not a Netherlands voice asked to sound Belgian. Paste your text, hear it free, pay per character.
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Hear the difference
The same Dutch sentence, twice. Hans is Flemish, Serge is from the Netherlands - listen to the g in "rustig" and "beginnen", soft in the Flemish line and scraping in the other, and to the long vowels, which stay level in Flanders and glide in the north.
Flemish voices (Belgium)
All 6 run on the ElevenLabs tiers: Enhanced at 110 credits / 1,000 characters (≈ $0.23 per minute of speech) and Premium at 160 (≈ $0.33) for the most natural result. The Standard tier reads Flemish too at 50 credits, and for most languages it has native voices of its own. Every clip downloads as MP3. Browse the voice library →
What a Flemish listener hears
Flemish and Netherlands Dutch share one written standard and split on sound. The Flemish g is soft, made further forward in the mouth, where the northern one scrapes at the back of the throat. The long ee and oo stay pure in Flanders and pick up a glide in the Randstad. The w is rounder, and the melody of a sentence is gentler. None of it gets in the way of understanding. All of it tells a listener in Antwerp or Ghent, within a word or two, whether the voice is one of theirs.
That matters wherever the listener decides whether this was made for them: a radio spot, the phone menu of a Belgian company, an onboarding course for staff in Leuven, a voiceover for a Flemish webshop. A Netherlands voice on Belgian copy is perfectly clear and still lands as imported, the way a British voice does on an American ad. Petra is energetic and clear, with a lot of variation, good for narration that must not drone. Dauphine is young, soft and informative, the one for instruction videos, e-learning and news-style reads. Katleen is a warm, inviting voice in mid-life. Hans is the calm professional narrator, Walter a warmer, slightly raspy podcast and storytelling voice, and Diederik a young, accessible one for commercials and social video.
These are narration voices recorded by Flemish speakers, in the register of voiceover work rather than of a city dialect. There are no West Flemish, Antwerp or Limburgish dialect voices here. If the audience is in the Netherlands, the five northern voices on the Dutch page are the right ones.
Write the script for Flanders too
A voice reads what you give it. If the script says mobieltje, magnetron and pinnen, a Flemish voice will say them, and a Flemish listener will hear a Dutch text in a Belgian accent. In Flanders the phone is a gsm, the microwave a microgolf, jam is confituur, and you pay with Bancontact rather than pinnen. Run the copy past a Belgian reader, or at least past those few words, before you voice it.
Form of address is the other tell. Copy from the Netherlands moved to je and jij long ago; Flemish business copy still uses u more readily, without sounding stiff. The voice follows whichever you write.
How it works
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Paste your text
Up to 200,000 characters, voiced part by part when the text is long. Paste Flemish text and the app detects the language.
Pick a voice
Every voice has a free sample in its own language - audition before spending a credit.
Play & download
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Frequently asked questions
Is Flemish a different language from Dutch?
No. Flemish is Dutch as it is spoken in Belgium: the same written standard, a different sound and a number of different everyday words. So you paste ordinary Dutch text, and the six voices on this page read it with a Flemish accent.
How do I pick a Flemish voice in the app?
Paste your text and Speecho detects Dutch. On the Enhanced and Premium tiers the Dutch voices are listed with a tag next to each name: BE for the six Flemish voices, NL for the five from the Netherlands. Every one has a free sample.
Can I use it for a Netherlands audience as well?
It will be understood without effort, and it will sound Belgian. For one recording that has to serve both countries, Netherlands Dutch is the more common default in international media; for copy aimed at Flanders, use a Flemish voice. The Dutch page has both sets side by side.
Which Flemish voice should I pick?
For narration and explainers, Petra or Hans. For e-learning, instructions and news-style reads, Dauphine. For a warm, personal read, Katleen. For podcasts and storytelling, Walter. For commercials and social video, Diederik. All six have free samples.
Are there dialect voices, such as West Flemish or Antwerp?
No. The six voices are narration voices, not dialect ones. For a spot that depends on a local dialect, a human recording is still the right call.
How much does Flemish text to speech cost?
The six voices on this page cost 110 credits per 1,000 characters on Enhanced or 160 on Premium, from a pay-as-you-go balance that starts at $5 and does not expire. A 1,000-character script is roughly a minute of speech. The Standard tier reads Dutch at 50 credits with its universal voices; it has no Flemish voice of its own.
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