A sentence from the Dutch reading of “The North Wind and the Sun”: “De noordenwind begon toen uit alle macht te blazen, maar hoe harder hij blies, des te dichter trok de reiziger zijn mantel om zich heen; en ten lange leste gaf de noordenwind het op.” (English: Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew, the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt.)
IPA: / də ˈnoːrdəʋɪnt bəˈɣɔn tun ˈœɪt ˈɑlə ˈmɑxt tə ˈblaːzən mɑr hu ˈhɑrdər hɛi ˈblis dɛs tə ˈdɪxtər trʊk də ˈreːzɪɣər zɛin ˈmɑntəl ɔm zɪx ˈheːn ɛn tɛn ˈlɑŋə ˈlɛstə ɣaːf də ˈnoːrdəʋɪnt hɛt ˈɔp /
SAMPA: [ d@ nord@wInt b@xOn tun Y+t Al@mAxt t@ blaz@n mar hu hArd@r hE+ blis dEst@ dIxt@r trOk d@ rE+z@x@r zE+n mAnt@l Om zIx hen En tEn lAN@ lEst@ xAf d@ nord@wInt @t Op ]
Speech samples (converted to MP3):
All audio files have been converted to MP3 format for storage efficiency. Resynthesis setting: De-emphasized Pulse Train, Burg Strong distortion uses settings: De-emphasized Pulse Train, Burg, i: 30%, u: -20%, a: 105%, Smooth: 0.5 sec
Originals from: van Son RJJH. The IFA Spoken Language Corpus [Internet]. Zenodo; 2001 [cited 2026 Feb 18]. Available from: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14904089 doi:10.5281/ZENODO.14904089
Van Son RJJH, Binnenpoorte D, Heuvel H van den, Pols LCW. The IFA corpus: a phonemically segmented Dutch” open source” speech database. In: Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 2001 Aalborg. Aalborg, Denmark; 2001. p. 2051–4.