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Canadian French Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Canadian French text to speech with a Quebec accent: paste your French script, choose a voice and press Play.
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Quebec style usually drops the space France puts before ! and ?; whichever you choose, keep it consistent.
19 voices
Canadian French text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 19 Canadian French voices, 10 male and 9 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
Gender
Jean
Antoine
Thierry
Antoinette
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Choose this voice style when your listeners live in Quebec or elsewhere in French-speaking Canada, where a voice from France sounds foreign. The vowels differ, and Quebec speakers turn the t in tu into something close to ts, so the accent is clear from the first line.
Vocabulary matters as much as accent. Write fin de semaine, not week-end, and stationnement rather than parking. Quebec says magasiner for going shopping and courriel for email, and many employers follow the Office québécois de la langue française on English terms. Meal names shift too: déjeuner is breakfast, dîner is lunch and souper is the evening meal.
The style of Radio-Canada suits news, government and training. A beer or pizza ad can lean casual, with on for nous and the odd tsé, but heavy joual spellings are hard to read back, so preview them. Montreal mixes French and English place names, such as Westmount beside Outremont; if one is misread, fix it in the pronunciation dictionary.
Three steps
How to convert Canadian French text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Canadian French text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
What's free
Free plan
Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Canadian French script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Canadian French has 10 male and 9 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
These voices speak French with a Canadian accent, close to the standard Quebec French heard on radio. A script in neutral French still sounds Canadian, while Quebec vocabulary makes it sound fully local. Acadian French from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia sounds different, so test a line first.
Quebec brands use tu more freely than brands in France, especially for food, retail and entertainment. Keep vous for banks, insurers, health care and government. Pick one form, then check the script for stray possessives such as ton and votre, which give away a switch.
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