Free French Speech-to-Text
Upload your French audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
French is spoken by around 80 million people as a native language and by many millions more as a second language across five continents. It is official in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Luxembourg, Monaco and much of West and Central Africa, so French recordings span an enormous range of settings and accents.
ConvertSpeech transcribes them automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken French with punctuation, ready to copy into a document, subtitle file or translation tool. It runs in your browser, needs no installation, and your first minutes are free with no account required.
Pourquoi transcrire French
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded French interviews into quotable text in minutes, ready to fact-check and publish.
Researchers and students
Convert French lectures and research interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Podcasters and creators
Generate French show notes, subtitles and articles straight from your episode audio.
French accents and regional variants we handle
Standard (Parisian) French is what most broadcast and professional recordings use, and ConvertSpeech is tuned for it. It handles metropolitan French across France, Belgium and Switzerland reliably.
French also varies by region. Canadian French (Québécois) has noticeably different vowels, intonation and vocabulary from European French, and African French adds its own accents and loanwords. Clear speech in any of these transcribes well; the biggest factor in accuracy is recording quality rather than the specific accent. If your audio is Canadian French, our separate Canadian French page is tuned for it.
Tips for accurate French transcription
- Use the clearest recording you have — a good microphone and low background noise matter most.
- Keep the language set to French rather than auto-detect when you know the recording is French.
- One speaker at a time transcribes best; heavy overlap reduces accuracy.
- For interviews with several people, enable speaker detection (a free registered feature) to label each speaker.