français · french → text
Transcribe French audio to text.
Transcrivez vos fichiers audio en français gratuitement, dans le navigateur, sans inscription.
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To transcribe French audio, drop the file into the box above. You don't pick a language: it's detected automatically and the transcript comes back in French. French from France, Québec, Belgium and Africa all works with the same model. Free: 3 files a day with no account, transcripts on screen for recordings up to 15 minutes, and emailed for 15–30 minutes (15 MB upload cap).
Updated 2026-09-17
How well it handles French
French is well covered by Whisper large-v3, with a low error rate in OpenAI's per-language breakdown (https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-languages). Accents, apostrophes and punctuation come out as normal written French.
Tips for French recordings
- Homophones need a proofread. French is full of words that sound the same: a/à, ces/ses, et/est, and silent plural endings. The model uses context and usually gets them right, but check quotes.
- Québécois and regional accents. No setting needed. Strong accents and informal speech lower accuracy a little, as with any language.
- Numbers and dates. Figures may be written as digits or words. Standardise them when you edit.
Recordings that mix French and English
The language is detected from the opening of the recording. If the first 30 seconds are an English intro, a jingle or silence, detection can settle on the wrong language for the whole file. The result screen shows the language it detected. If it's wrong, trim the intro and run it again.
Free vs Unlimited
| Free | Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $9/month, cancel anytime |
| Files per day | 3 | No daily limit |
| Longest file | 15 min on screen, 30 min by email | 2 hours |
| Upload size | 15 MB | 50 MB |
| Audio per month | — | 30 hours |
| Speaker labels | No | Yes |
| Account | None | None, Stripe checkout |
FAQ
Can it translate French audio into English?+
No. French audio becomes a French transcript.
Does it handle Canadian French?+
Yes. The same model covers French from Québec, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa. There's no variant to choose.
Can I get French subtitles?+
Yes. Download the .srt file after the transcript appears.