**French Transcription — Convert Audio & Video to Text | SozAI**
Source: https://sozai.app/transcription/french/

# French Audio to Text Français

Turn French meetings, interviews and lectures into searchable text with speaker labels — Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian and West African French.

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30 min Free monthly

631 Public transcripts

500 MB Max file

Does SozAI transcribe French?

SozAI transcribes French audio and video into text across Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian and West African French. It labels each speaker automatically, timestamps every word, restores accents and cedillas, and exports to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT. Recordings are processed in EU data centers and encrypted at rest, and every account gets 30 minutes a month without a card.

- Latin
- Left to right
- Speaker labels
- Word-level timestamps
- SRT · VTT · DOCX

Français, written the way it is actually written.

Specification

## French transcription at a glance

French — SozAI capability sheet FR

| Native name | Français |
| --- | --- |
| ISO 639-1 code | fr |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Text direction | Left to right |
| Speakers worldwide | ~310 million |
| Varieties covered | Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian, West African |
| Speaker labels | Yes — automatic diarization |
| Timestamps | Word level |
| Summaries | Yes, in the same language |
| Export formats | TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT |
| Maximum file size | 500 MB |
| Free tier | 30 minutes per month, no card |
| Where data is stored | EU data centers, AES-256 at rest |
| Public transcripts in this language | 631 |

Workflow

## How to transcribe French audio

1. 01

   ### Add the recording

   Record straight into the app, upload a file up to 500 MB, or paste a YouTube link. SozAI reads m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4 and mov.
2. 02

   ### Set French, or let it detect

   Choose French when you know the variety, or leave detection on. Recordings that mix French and English — routine in Montréal and in Brussels institutions — stay in a single transcript.
3. 03

   ### Read, search and export

   The transcript arrives with speaker labels and word timestamps. Search it, ask it questions, generate a summary in French, or export SRT and VTT subtitles.

Field notes

## What makes French hard to transcribe

### Spoken word boundaries are not written word boundaries

Liaison and elision glue French together: "les amis" is pronounced as one unit, "je ai" becomes "j'ai". The acoustic signal simply does not contain the spaces the written language requires. A French transcript is therefore always partly a grammatical reconstruction, which is why models that understand syntax outperform ones that only match sounds.

### Homophones do the heavy lifting

French is unusually rich in words that sound identical and are spelled differently: est / et / es / ai, and the whole -er / -é / -ez family of verb endings. Choosing between them requires knowing the grammatical role of the word, not what it sounded like. This is where most of the remaining error rate in French transcription lives.

### Québécois is its own target

Québec French differs from Metropolitan French in vowel quality, vocabulary and rhythm enough that a model tuned on Paris broadcasts degrades on a Montréal conversation. It is treated as a distinct variety rather than an accent, and joual-heavy informal speech remains the hardest case.

### Accents are not decoration

Dropping a diacritic changes the word: "ou" and "où", "a" and "à", "sur" and "sûr". SozAI writes the full orthography including accents, the cedilla and the œ ligature, because a transcript that strips them cannot be pasted into a document, a subtitle file or a search index without a manual pass.

From the archive

## French transcripts published on SozAI

631 public French transcripts so far — every one produced by the same engine described above. Read them in full, no account needed.

- [![Documentaire sur Gaza : Les deux réalisateurs israélien… — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HhwSWwWpG_Y/maxresdefault.jpg) Documentaire sur Gaza : Les deux réalisateurs israélien… — Transcript TV5MONDE Info · 190 words · 2:49](https://sozai.app/transcript/documentary-gaza-israeli-directors-nationality-threat/)
- [![UN EXPERT FAIT TREMBLER ISRAËL : SES RÉVÉLATIONS CHOC ! — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-4haakr-HsU/maxresdefault.jpg) UN EXPERT FAIT TREMBLER ISRAËL : SES RÉVÉLATIONS CHOC ! — Transcript Teddy en roue libre · 1,409 words · 9:35](https://sozai.app/transcript/un-expert-shakes-israel-revelations/)
- [![iPhone 18 Pro, il n’est pas fait pour tout le monde ! — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5QLhriW3uk/maxresdefault.jpg) iPhone 18 Pro, il n’est pas fait pour tout le monde !… Nowtech · 3,247 words · 16:09](https://sozai.app/transcript/iphone-18-pro-not-for-everyone/)
- [![L’incroyable MANIPULATION de Macron pour VERROUILLER le… — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IKMRLZhN4ZA/maxresdefault.jpg) L’incroyable MANIPULATION de Macron pour VERROUILLER le… — Transcript Le Zapping du COVID · 917 words · 5:15](https://sozai.app/transcript/macron-manipulation-verrouiller-pouvoirs-depart/)
- [![Dans son bunker à l’Élysée, Macron vient de péter un câ… — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f5Ixfq59mTA/maxresdefault.jpg) Dans son bunker à l’Élysée, Macron vient de péter un câ… —… FLORIAN PHILIPPOT · 2,999 words · 14:40](https://sozai.app/transcript/macron-bunker-elysee-loses-temper/)
- [![C’est quoi sa dissuasion nucléaire « avancée » ? — Transcript — French transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_iCw4p6sDuQ/maxresdefault.jpg) C’est quoi sa dissuasion nucléaire « avancée » ? — Transcript François Asselineau · 1,116 words · 6:51](https://sozai.app/transcript/dissuasion-nucleaire-avancee-explained/)

 [All French transcripts](https://sozai.app/transcripts/language/french/)

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Answers

## French transcription — your questions

Short answers you can quote. Longer ones live in the sections above.

Which French varieties are supported?

Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian and West African French. You can pick the variety or let automatic detection choose from the opening seconds. Accuracy is highest on clear, standard speech; heavily informal Québécois and fast overlapping conversation are where you should expect to correct the most.

Are accents and cedillas written out?

Yes — é, è, ê, ë, à, ù, û, ç and the œ ligature are all written properly. This is load-bearing rather than cosmetic: several of the most common French words differ only by an accent, and a transcript without them is not directly usable in a document or an SRT file.

Can it separate speakers in a French interview?

Yes. Diarization operates on the audio, so speakers are labelled and every turn timestamped regardless of language. For journalism and qualitative research this is what turns a recording into a quotable source rather than an undifferentiated block of text.

What happens with recordings that mix French and English?

They stay in a single transcript, with each fragment written in its own language and in the order it was spoken. This is the normal situation in Montréal workplaces and in Brussels institutions, and splitting the file by language loses the thread of the discussion.

How much does French transcription cost?

Every account gets 30 minutes per month free without a card. Beyond that SozAI is a flat monthly subscription with a shared pool of minutes, and the language does not affect the price. Current plans are listed on the pricing page.

Where to use it

## French transcription across SozAI

Everything below works in French, with the same speaker labels and word timestamps.

- [Audio to text Upload a file up to 500 MB and get a transcript back.](https://sozai.app/audio-to-text/)
- [Video to text Pull the spoken track out of any video file.](https://sozai.app/video-to-text/)
- [YouTube transcript Paste a link — no account needed.](https://sozai.app/youtube-transcript/)
- [Subtitles Export SRT and VTT with word-level timing.](https://sozai.app/subtitle-generator/)
- [Meeting recorder Record the call and get notes with action items.](https://sozai.app/meeting-recorder/)
- [Interviews Speaker-separated transcripts you can quote from.](https://sozai.app/interview-transcription/)

Transcribe your first French recording

Record, upload a file or paste a link. Accents, speakers and timestamps come back with it.

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