French Text to Speech
Turn French text into natural speech with AI voices. 15 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
Tags the selected model understands — click to drop one into your text where it happens:
This model reads plain text, so inline tags are ignored. For tag-based emotion, switch to an expressive model like Orpheus or Bark.
Define custom pronunciations (word = pronunciation):
About French text to speech
French text-to-speech has to handle liaison — the normally silent final consonant that resurfaces before a vowel, as in "les_amis" — which is contextual and one of the trickiest parts to get right. The accent choice matters a great deal: Metropolitan (Parisian) French and Canadian (Québécois) French differ noticeably in vowel quality, nasalization and rhythm. French also relies on four nasal vowels and largely fixed phrase-final stress, so a natural voice groups words into rhythmic phrases rather than stressing individual words the way English does.
Sample — Français
“Bonjour, je vous souhaite une excellente journée et j'espère que tout se passera comme prévu aujourd'hui.”
- Native name
- Français
- Speakers
- about 310 million speakers worldwide
- Language family
- Gallo-Romance branch of Indo-European
- Script
- Latin (with accents and the ç cedilla)
- Spoken in
- France, Canada (Québec), Belgium, Switzerland, and much of West and Central Africa
