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French Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
French text to speech in the accent of France: type or paste your French text, then press Play to listen.
Hear it in French
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Type every accent in full, including on capitals, because marche and marché are different words.
41 voices
French text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 41 French voices, 19 male and 22 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender. Of these, 2 are Emotional voices, and each supports the 7 emotion presets. Choose Calm, Happy or Serious, for example, and the voice reads that line in that mood.
Gender
Léa Fontaine
Denise
Henri
Maëlys
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Accents change how French is said. Marche is a walk, but marché is a market, and the é is the only sign that the final vowel is spoken. Côte and cote differ in the same way. French spelling keeps accents on capital letters, so start a sentence with É rather than E, and check copied text for accents that went missing.
Spoken French links words together. In les amis the s is sounded as a z, but in les héros it stays silent, because that h blocks the link. Keep elisions such as l'école and qu'il exactly as written. French print also puts a space before : ; ! and ? and inside « guillemets ». Type whichever habit you prefer, then preview a question to hear the rising tone.
Write decimals with a comma (3,5) and thousands with a space (12 500). Ordinals look like 1er and 2e, and dates go day first: le 14 juillet. Abbreviations such as M., Mme and n° deserve a listen; spell one out if it comes out wrong, or set its reading in the pronunciation dictionary.
What people make with French voice over
Audio guides for châteaux and museums
Narrate each room of a Loire château or each gallery of a regional museum, and regenerate one stop when a display moves.
Soldes and seasonal promotions
Voice in-store and social messages for the winter and summer soldes, then swap in the new dates for the next round.
Onboarding and compliance courses
Turn HR welcome packs, safety rules and compliance modules into narration for staff in France, addressing the learner as vous throughout.
Story-led adverts
When a spot needs warmth or excitement, try the Emotional voices with their emotion presets[[C066]] next to a neutral voice and keep the read that fits.
Three steps
How to convert French text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste 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 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. French has 19 male and 22 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.
France. The voices on this page speak standard French as heard in France, the accent most French courses teach. Quebec French differs in its vowels, its rhythm and some everyday words, and Belgian and Swiss French have habits of their own. For those audiences, open the matching page in the list above.
Use vous for most voice overs: adverts for adults, banks, health, e-learning and phone menus. Tu suits brands that talk to teenagers, or a playful social clip. Whichever you pick, keep it the same across the whole script, including verb endings and words such as votre or ton, so the narrator never switches tone halfway through.
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