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Transcribe French Audio

Liaisons, silent letters and rapid Parisian speech make French hard to transcribe by ear. Upload your French recordings and get clean transcripts with correct accents and punctuation — European, Canadian and African French included.

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What you get: a real transcript

Unedited output from a 64-second interview with two speakers (synthetic voices), transcribed with speaker detection on. Only the first lines are shown.

Transcript (TXT)
SPEAKER_00 (0:00) Welcome back to Small Shop Stories.
SPEAKER_00 (0:02) Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the
SPEAKER_00 (0:05) corner of Mill Street.
SPEAKER_01 (0:07) Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_01 (0:08) It's really small, just two ovens and a counter.
SPEAKER_00 (0:12) So how does a normal day start for you?
Subtitles (SRT)
1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,680
[SPEAKER_00] Welcome back to Small Shop Stories.

2
00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,320
[SPEAKER_00] Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the

3
00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,320
[SPEAKER_00] corner of Mill Street.

Checked against the script, 4 of 189 words differed — a 2.1% word error rate, counting "80" written for "eighty" as an error — and all 14 speaker turns were labelled correctly. This was clean speech; noisy recordings and people talking over each other score lower. See the full transcript and how it was scored

How it works

  1. 1

    Upload

    Drop in an audio or video file, or paste a link. All common formats are accepted.

  2. 2

    Transcribe

    AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.

  3. 3

    Export

    Edit segments online, then export TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF or DOCX.

Why ScribeToAny

  • Metropolitan & Canadian French: Handles Parisian, Québécois, Belgian, Swiss and African French accents — strongest on clear standard French.
  • Liaisons & Elisions: Liaisons, silent letters and contractions (c'est, d'accord) are written in standard French spelling, not phonetically.
  • Accents Kept: é, è, ê, ë, à, â, ç and œ come out as proper French, not stripped to plain ASCII.
  • Timed Subtitles & Docs: Export formatted Word reports, PDFs, and synchronized SRT/VTT caption files.

Frequently asked questions

Are accents (é, è, ç) preserved?

Yes, output is properly accented French text, not stripped ASCII.

Does Canadian French work?

Yes — Québécois and other regional variants transcribe under the same French setting.

Can I get French subtitles for a video?

Yes, export SRT or VTT with aligned timestamps.

Should I choose French or leave Auto-detect on?

If you know the recording is French, pick Français under Audio language. Auto-detect decides from roughly the first 30 seconds, so a file that opens with music, silence or an English intro can be read as another language — choosing the language skips that guess. Canadian, Belgian, Swiss and African French all use the same option.

Can it label speakers in a French interview or debate?

Yes. Turn on Detect speakers before transcribing; it separates voices by how they sound, so it works the same for any language. If you know how many people speak, set Number of speakers (2–8) — that helps most in debates and round tables, where voices overlap and the automatic count can merge two similar speakers.

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