French transcription
French transcription works on any recording you drop here, from a lecture to a voice note, and returns the French as text or SRT.
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French transcription here expects French from the first word, so a short clip isn't mistaken for another language. French is one of the strongest languages on the site, and a clear recording usually needs only light corrections. Quebec and European French both work. A clean recording with one person speaking at a time comes out best.
Questions
Are accents and apostrophes kept?
Yes. The text is written the way French is written, with accents and elisions such as "l'école" and "qu'il".
Can I get the transcript with timestamps?
Yes. Download SRT or VTT and every line carries its timing. The text download has none.
Does it work on a YouTube video in French?
Yes. Paste the link into YouTube transcript. A video with captions comes back in seconds and uses none of your free minutes.
Does it translate French into English?
Yes: translate French to English audio. This page keeps the text in French.
About French recordings
- Script
- Latin alphabet, written left to right, with accents such as é, è and à, and ç.
- Spoken in
- France, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland, and much of West and Central Africa.
- Subtitle tip
- Accented letters and ç need a UTF-8 subtitle file; in an older encoding they can show as stray symbols.