How West Frisian is written
West Frisian is spoken in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands. Books in West Frisian use the Latin alphabet.
West Frisian is one of the closest relatives of English on the continent, written with its own marks, such as â, ê, ô and ú, and vowel pairs like ea and oa. Because Dutch is all around it, a Frisian text can be taken for Dutch.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real West Frisian text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
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PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of West Frisian in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Keep the text as Unicode, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
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No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From West Frisian book to audiobook
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. A short or mixed text in West Frisian can look like Dutch. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose West Frisian as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read West Frisian: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
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Press play. Chapters, read-along text, speed, a sleep timer and your place synced between devices work as in every other language.
What Experimental means for West Frisian
West Frisian is one of our Experimental languages: we narrate it as a best effort. Quality can vary widely, from book to book and from narrator to narrator, and some words may come out with an accent or the wrong stress.
Listen to the first few minutes before you settle in, and try another narrator if one doesn’t suit your West Frisian book.
Keep your West Frisian audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. West Frisian books are narrated with Premium voices, so a download uses your plan’s Premium hours. Play it in Apple Books, any audiobook app or the car, offline.
Questions people ask
Can Book2Speech read West Frisian aloud?
Yes, as an Experimental language. Premium voices read West Frisian as a best effort, and quality can vary widely, so listen to a few minutes of your book first.
Is West Frisian narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your West Frisian book. After that, West Frisian needs a paid plan, from Listener at $4.99/month or $49.90/year. Standard voices, unlimited on every plan, read English only.
What if my West Frisian book is detected as another language?
Choose West Frisian as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as West Frisian. It can happen when a passage looks like Dutch.
Can I download a West Frisian audiobook?
Yes. Download audiobook makes one file with chapters, cover and book details (M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV), narrated with Premium voices from your plan’s Premium hours. Listen to a chapter first to be sure you like it.