Healthcare
Medication alert
Medikasie herinnering: Dit is tyd om u aandmedikasie te neem. Neem asseblief een Lisinopril tablet met 'n vol glas water. Moenie vergeet om u bloeddruk aan te teken nie.
Languages & voices
Afrikaans text to speech voices
2 ReadSpeaker text to speech voices in Afrikaans (af-ZA): 1 female and 1 male, from 1 voice provider.
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2 voices in Afrikaans
1 voice provider for Afrikaans
The catalogue
Afrikaans voices
Listen to every Afrikaans voice before you choose one. All 2 speak the same Afrikaans sample sentence.
Technical details of every Afrikaans voice
| Voice | Gender | Technology | Provider | Available in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kobus | Male | - | CSIR/Qfrency | Cloud |
| Maryna | Female | - | CSIR/Qfrency | Cloud |
Cloud voices are available in ReadSpeaker’s online products; Licensing voices are available for on-premises and embedded deployments.
11 million
Afrikaans speakers worldwide.
Every one of them is a potential listener. ReadSpeaker gives your content a Afrikaans voice, in the Afrikaans they hear every day, on the web, in your documents, in your apps and on your devices.
Source
- Wikipedia. Afrikaans language. Retrieved 2026-08-26. Open the source
Use cases
What Afrikaans voices are used for
Three of the places an Afrikaans voice goes to work. Each one is read here by a different voice, drawn from the 2 Afrikaans voices in the catalogue.
IVR
Phone menu
Druk 1 vir rekeninginligting. Druk 2 vir faktuurvrae. Druk 3 vir tegniese ondersteuning. Druk 0 om met 'n operateur te praat.
Education
Textbook
Hoofstuk 5: Die Watersiklus. Water beweeg voortdurend deur 'n siklus van verdamping, kondensasie en neerslag. Hierdie proses is noodsaaklik vir alle lewe op Aarde.
Sample
What you hear in Afrikaans
Hallo, ek is een van die stemme wat jy kan gebruik om jou webwerf met spraak te aktiveer. Wanneer ek jou teks lees, klink dit so.Custom Voice
An Afrikaans voice that is yours alone
Kobus speaks Afrikaans for everyone. A Custom Voice speaks it only for you: your own speaker, your own sound, trained into a voice no competitor can use.
Your speaker
We record an Afrikaans speaker you choose, or work from recordings you already own.
Your sound
The way your speaker says Afrikaans is kept, not smoothed into a neutral read.
Your products
The finished voice is delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.
The whole catalogue
Explore every other language and accent
Afrikaans is one of the languages and accents ReadSpeaker speaks. Turn the globe, pick a pin, hear the voice.
FAQ
Afrikaans text to speech, answered
ReadSpeaker offers 2 Afrikaans text to speech voices, 1 female and 1 male. Every Afrikaans voice speaks Afrikaans (af-ZA), and each one can be played on this page before you choose.
11 million Afrikaans speakers worldwide, according to Afrikaans language on Wikipedia. Afrikaans text to speech lets you reach them in Afrikaans, the language they hear every day.
Not today. Of the 2 Afrikaans voices, 2 in ReadSpeaker's online products. Licensed Afrikaans voices run inside your own infrastructure, so no text ever leaves it.
The Afrikaans catalogue is built with 1 voice provider: CSIR/Qfrency. ReadSpeaker selects and tunes each Afrikaans voice, and serves them all through one interface.
Yes. ReadSpeaker Custom Voice builds a Afrikaans voice that belongs to your brand alone, trained on a speaker you choose, speaking the same Afrikaans you hear from Kobus on this page. It is then delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.