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Afrikaans Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Hear your own script as Afrikaans text to speech: type it in, choose a voice and press Play.
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Script ideas
Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Starting a sentence with 'n? Keep it lower case and capitalise the next word, as in "'n Mens weet nooit".
3 voices
Afrikaans text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 3 Afrikaans voices, 1 male and 2 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
Gender
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Follow the standard spelling in the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls, the reference schools and publishers use. Type the marked letters properly: wêreld, môre, reën. A missing mark can change the word itself. "Jan se boek" uses the possessive se, while "sê" means to say.
Afrikaans negation comes in pairs: "Ek weet nie wat hy wil hê nie." The second nie closes the sentence. When you cut a long line down for a voice over, check that both are still there, because a sentence that loses its closing nie sounds wrong to any Afrikaans listener.
Everyday Afrikaans borrows freely from English, so decide how much to keep. A school or church recording might say selfoon and rekenaar; a radio advert for a younger crowd can say cellphone and laptop. Preview English words and brand names, and if one is read the wrong way, add it to the pronunciation dictionary.
Three steps
How to convert Afrikaans text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Afrikaans text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
What's free
Free plan
Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Afrikaans script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Afrikaans has 1 male and 2 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
No. Afrikaans grew out of Dutch, but its spelling and grammar have moved a long way. Verbs do not change with the person, so it is ek is, jy is and hulle is, and many Dutch spellings look odd to Afrikaans readers. Write your script in Afrikaans, choose an Afrikaans voice, and preview it.
Write them the way people say them. "Half drie" means half past two, not half past three, and "kwart oor sewe" is a quarter past seven. Writing the words leaves no doubt about which time you mean. If a clock time in figures is read oddly, respell it or add an entry to the pronunciation dictionary.
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Turn your Afrikaans script into a voice over
Paste your script into the tool above, pick a voice and hear it before you sign up.
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