Dutch AI voiceover

The Dutch voices, with samples

Each sample reads the same line so you can compare them fairly.

Netherlands Dutch, unless you intervene

Dutch maps to nl-NL, and the eight automatic voices all carry that accent. For a Belgian audience the difference is audible, and the answer sits one dialog away: each scene's voice picker searches the live Google catalogue, where nl-BE voices are listed, and a swap on a scene affects that scene only. The script the director writes is standard Dutch either way, so a Flemish flavour in vocabulary needs to be requested in the brief. The brief itself can be in any language; the Language field alone fixes what the video speaks and shows.

Choosing among the four reading styles

Puck and Laomedeia give the quick bright delivery for ads and social clips; a webshop sale announcement belongs to them. Charon and Erinome are the deliberate explainers, and any tutorial is forced onto them by a fixed rule, so an app walkthrough cannot end up with the ad voice by accident. Umbriel and Sulafat suit the local business register, direct but friendly, which fits how Dutch small businesses actually talk. Iapetus and Aoede handle the flat corporate read. Style plus a male or female pick is the director's whole casting decision, revisable per scene.

Timing behaviour you will notice

Dutch sits close to English in information density, so scenes rarely stretch dramatically, but every scene still grows to fit its clip when needed, and in the dynamic pace an overrunning line continues across the next cut instead of squeezing. Each scene exposes a start delay in seconds and five speed steps between 0.85x and 1.25x. Background music self-regulates, dropping to 22 percent of its level whenever the voice speaks and easing back afterwards, so a narration-heavy video needs no mixing work at all.

Text habits that improve the read

Give numbers their spoken form when it matters: tweeënnegentig is unambiguous where 92 leaves room for a mechanical read, and prices do best written out. There is no phonetic input, so a French or English name in a Dutch sentence is corrected by respelling it until the voice lands, and Dutch spelling is flexible enough that this usually takes one try. Sentence punctuation drives caption cuts and intonation both. The em dash is banned from generated narration by the writing rules; a comma or a fresh sentence serves the same rhythm without confusing the pacing.

Captions in this script

Dutch is typographically gentle: the ij digraph and the occasional trema, as in geïnteresseerd, are ordinary Latin glyphs that all catalogue fonts include, so captions never fall back regardless of look. Words illuminate one at a time as the voice reaches them, timed from the actual audio, inside the fixed dark pill. Dutch compounds can get long, klantenservicemedewerker being a single caption word, and the 48 character sentence limit then splits a line into two cues sooner than English writers expect.

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