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Better Dutch NL-nl female voices [feature voice request]

Open carsten88 opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

I'm native Dutch. Please believe me, I've tried them all. There is no acceptable NL-nl Dutch female voice.

Nederlands (Piper Anna Female)/nl Anne is either hyperventilating or being suffacated.

Nederlands (Mimic3 Nathalie Low Female)/nl is the same voice as Nederlands Belgisch (Piper Nathalie Low Female)/nl These are Belgium=Flamish=Vlaams=NL-Be

Nederlands (Mimic3 Rdh Low)/nl is (male) is also NL-be.

The best Dutch all-purpose female voice is Dutch google translate. other usefull voices are: Fenna (nl-NL-FennaNeural) Tess from speechify browser plugin. Wavenet-D, Female or Standard-D, Female or nl-NL-Standard-E, Female from ttsfree. Colette (nl-NL-ColetteNeural)

I hope any of those are intergrateble in Speech Note.

carsten88 avatar Jun 30 '25 14:06 carsten88

Thanks a lot for the evaluation of the Dutch voices :) I will correct the description by adding "NL-be" indicator.

I will try to find more Dutch models/voices. Unfortunately, the ones you mentioned are proprietary and only available via API, so I can't add them to Speech Note.

Usually, to find new and open-source models, I search https://huggingface.co.

mkiol avatar Jul 01 '25 18:07 mkiol

Feel free to contact me if you want a Dutch-persons opinion about a voice.

carsten88 avatar Jul 02 '25 07:07 carsten88