French text to speech with native voices
Nine French speakers from France and six from Québec, across narration, advertising and conversation. Paste your text, hear it free, pay per character.
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Hear the difference
The same French sentence, twice. Audrey is a French speaker; Zoe reads French with an English accent - listen to the nasal vowels and the missing liaison.
French voices from France
Canadian French voices (Québec)
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All 15 run on the ElevenLabs tiers: Enhanced at 110 credits / 1,000 characters (≈ $0.23 per minute of speech) and Premium at 160 (≈ $0.33) for the most natural result. The Standard tier reads French too at 50 credits, and for most languages it has native voices of its own. Every clip downloads as MP3. Browse the voice library →
Why a native French voice matters
French lives on features English simply does not have: nasal vowels (un bon vin blanc), the uvular r, silent final consonants that come back to life in liaison (les amis pronounced lez-ami). An English-accented voice misses all three, which is why foreign TTS reading French sounds instantly off to a French ear. Native voices carry the even, syllable-timed rhythm and the light rising end of French sentences.
Nine voices speak the French of France - Nicolas, Jeanne and Léo with a Parisian colour, the others in the standard broadcast register. Audrey is bright and advertising-friendly, Anaïs measured and instructional, Jeanne a young audiobook narrator, Lucie the warm, everyday voice of customer support. Guillaume is a steady narrator, Maxime a young, casual male voice for conversational content, Léo a light, reassuring one for audio guides and e-learning. Adina is young and welcoming, made for social media. Six more are from Québec - Jeanne M., Amélie, Caroline, Alexandre, Adam and Thomas - because a Parisian voice on copy for Montréal is as audible as a British voice on an American ad. They have a page of their own, and the Standard tier adds two Québec voices.
How it works
Watch the full tutorial on YouTube
Paste your text
Up to 200,000 characters, voiced part by part when the text is long. Paste French text and the app detects the language.
Pick a voice
Every voice has a free sample in its own language - audition before spending a credit.
Play & download
Ready in seconds. Listen in the browser or download the MP3; clips stay in your history for 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
I need English spoken with a French accent, not French. Is that here?
That is a different page. These voices read French; for English read by a French speaker, see English with a French accent, which has five voices.
Does it handle liaison and silent letters?
Yes - the native voices apply liaison where French does (vous êtes as vouz-êtes) and keep final consonants silent where they should be. This is precisely what non-native TTS gets wrong most often.
Is it France French or Canadian French?
Both. Nine voices speak France French - Nicolas, Jeanne and Léo with a Parisian colour, the rest in the standard broadcast register - and six are from Québec, tagged Québec in the picker, with a Canadian French page of their own. The Standard tier adds two native Québec voices.
Can it read numbers, dates and euros correctly?
Yes - 1 250 € comes out as mille deux cent cinquante euros, dates and ordinals follow French conventions, and abbreviations like M. and Mme are expanded naturally.
How much does French text to speech cost?
Native French voices exist on every tier: eleven on Standard at 50 credits per 1,000 characters, two of them from Québec, and the fifteen on this page on Enhanced at 110 or Premium at 160. A 1,000-character paragraph is roughly one minute of speech - about $0.10 on Standard or $0.23 on Enhanced at the $5 pack rate. No subscription, credits never expire.
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