Use French text to speech for courses, audiobooks, YouTube videos, and phone menus, with one line telling the narrator whether the listener is in Paris, Montreal, Brussels, Geneva, or Dakar. Write prices, dates, and numbers the way your market does and hear them before you export. Free plan: 1,000 words, no credit card.
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A French read can be fluent and still sound wrong to someone in Lausanne or Quebec City. These are the details to check in your script and in the preview.
les amis / les héros
"Les amis" links into a z sound, but "les héros" does not, and it is "le héros", never "l'héros". There is also no liaison after "et". Play any line with an h-word before you export, and rephrase it if the link sounds off.
soixante-dix / septante / huitante
France says soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix. Belgium says septante and nonante, and much of Swiss Romandy adds huitante for 80. A Brussels ad that says soixante-dix sounds imported, so write the number out in words when a fixed reading matters.
12,99 € / 12,99 $
French puts a comma before the cents, a space between thousands, and the symbol after the amount. The narrator reads "douze euros quatre-vingt-dix-neuf". Use $ for Canadian prices, and keep the symbol next to the figure.
le 1er mai / 14 h 30
Write "1er" for "le premier mai", but plain digits for every other day. Times use the 24-hour clock with h, so 14 h 30 is "quatorze heures trente" in schedules and notices.
courriel, magasiner
Brand and support copy in France usually says vous. Quebec speech uses tu more freely and has its own words, such as courriel for email and magasiner for shopping. Write the script for the market, then ask for a Quebec accent in the direction.
French workplaces borrow English nouns all day. Leave them in English inside the French sentence; the narrator says call and roadmap in English and keeps the clock time in French.
A Paris team reminder mixing call, roadmap, and quinze heures
Style: Speak in Parisian French, casual, as one coworker to another before lunch
On a un call à 15 h pour valider la roadmap avec le client.
Type figures the way a French reader expects to see them. Where Belgium or Switzerland read the same digits differently, ask for that accent in the direction or spell the number out.
| You write | The narrator says | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1 299,99 € | mille deux cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf euros quatre-vingt-dix-neuf | Space for thousands, comma for cents, symbol last. Formal reads add "et ... centimes". |
| 75 | soixante-quinze / septante-cinq | France first, then Belgium and Switzerland. Same digits, two correct reads. |
| le 1er mai 2026 | le premier mai deux mille vingt-six | Day one is the only ordinal date. |
| 14 h 30 | quatorze heures trente | Timetable style, with h between hours and minutes. |
French is spoken across France, Quebec and the rest of Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and much of West and Central Africa. Teams write once in French and direct the accent for each market.
Money, tech, and explainer channels open with a question that keeps viewers past the first seconds, read with a little energy.
Vous payez trop cher votre forfait mobile ? Voici comment diviser la facture par deux.
Voice your French YouTube hooksCourse modules for schools and training providers in France, Belgium, or francophone Africa, with a patient, even read.
Dans ce module, vous apprendrez à remplir une note de frais en trois étapes.
Course narration for Belgian and African schoolsHR and L&D teams in Canada and Europe voice the same onboarding in France French and Quebec French by changing one line of direction.
Bienvenue dans votre parcours d'onboarding. En dix minutes, vous allez découvrir les outils de l'équipe.
French onboarding and compliance voiceoverNovels and memoirs read chapter by chapter, with a slower, darker direction for night scenes and a lighter one for dialogue.
Chapitre un. Le train de nuit pour Marseille partait toujours avec dix minutes de retard.
Chapter-by-chapter French novelsWalkthroughs for SaaS and fintech tools, so customers in France and Quebec hear each click explained in French.
Glissez votre fichier ici, et l'outil génère la facture en quelques secondes.
Read a French product demo aloudService changes and closure notices for transit, utilities, and city services, recorded again whenever the dates change.
Avis aux usagers : en raison de travaux, la ligne orange sera fermée samedi soir.
Montreal service-change announcementsA spring promotion, a podcast opening, a Quebec phone menu, and a rainy chapter in Lyon. Same Enbee V2 narrators throughout; only the written direction changes the accent and mood.
Female · Middle-Aged · Multilingual
Spring promo with a percentage
Style: Speak in French from France, bright and quick, like a radio spot for a sale.
Jusqu'au 15 mars, profitez de 30 % de réduction sur tous nos abonnements annuels.
Male · Middle-Aged · Multilingual
Economics podcast opening
Style: Speak in French from France, relaxed and curious, as a host welcoming regular listeners.
Bonjour et bienvenue dans le podcast qui décrypte l'économie en vingt minutes chrono.
Female · Young · Multilingual
Montreal store phone menu
Style: Speak in Quebec French, calm and polite, like the phone menu of a Montreal store.
Pour suivre votre commande, appuyez sur 1. Pour parler à un conseiller, appuyez sur 2.
Male · Young · Multilingual
Literary fiction passage
Style: Read in French from France, slow and grave, like a novelist reading their own chapter.
Il pleuvait sur Lyon depuis trois jours, et Claire n'avait toujours pas ouvert la lettre posée sur la table.
A YouTube channel, a Quebec training team, and a Paris publisher need different things. Here is where each kind of French project fits.
Split a French script into blocks, give each a narrator and an accent, and export one file or a file per block. Make a France version and a Quebec version of the same course side by side.
Split your French course into Studio blocksUpload the EPUB, PDF, or DOCX your printer already has, confirm where each chapitre starts, and redo only the paragraph a proofreader corrected.
Narrate the backlist with the Audiobook CreatorClone your own voice, or a voice you have permission to use, from a short sample, so a teacher or founder can keep narrating new French episodes without a studio session.
Clone the voice your French audience knowsTesting French costs nothing for the first 1,000 words, and no card is asked for. Those free files are watermarked; a paid plan lifts the mark, adds words, and lets you use the French audio commercially. See what French narration costs
Lorraine welcomes the new hire, Milton walks through the dashboard, and Lorraine closes the module. Each block carries its own narrator and direction, and you can drag them into a new order.
01Lorraine
Style: Speak in French from France, warm and clear, like a trainer meeting a new team.
Bienvenue dans votre parcours d'onboarding. En dix minutes, vous allez découvrir les outils de l'équipe.
02Milton
Style: Read in French from France, steady and precise, pointing out each click.
Ouvrez le dashboard, puis cliquez sur « Mes objectifs ». Votre manager y laisse son feedback chaque semaine.
03Lorraine
Style: Speak in French from France, lighter now, wrapping up with a smile.
C'est terminé pour ce module. On se retrouve dans le prochain pour les règles de sécurité.
If « Mes objectifs » becomes a new label in the product, fix the middle block and generate it again. Lorraine's welcome and goodbye stay as recorded.
Write "Speak in Quebec French" or "Speak in Belgian French" in the direction, add [softly] or [excited] before a phrase, and listen to a short block first.
Set up a Quebec and France course pair in StudioWhen a brand or a small town must sound the same in all twelve modules, pick an Enbee V1 French voice: it stores the pronunciation and adds speed and pause settings.
Canadian, Belgian, Swiss, and African projects often need English, Dutch, German, Arabic, or Haitian Creole versions too. Or browse all 80+ text to speech languages.
Running courses, demos, and books in French alongside other languages.
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FAQs
Questions French creators, trainers, and publishers ask about accents, numbers, and exports.
Yes. The free plan gives you 1,000 words with no credit card, which is enough to test a few French scripts and accents. Files exported on the free plan include a watermark; a paid plan removes it and adds more words.
Narration Box has 1,500+ AI voices across 80+ languages, including Enbee V1 voices made for French. The samples on this page use our 21 Enbee V2 narrators (12 female, 9 male), and any of them can read French and take an accent from the direction.
Ask for it in the style instruction, for example "Speak in Quebec French" or "Speak in French with a Senegalese accent". Listen to a short block first, then adjust the wording of the direction if you want the accent stronger or lighter.
Play the line first. For Belgian or Swiss listeners, the safest route is to write septante-cinq or nonante in words and ask for that accent in the direction, so the number is read the regional way.
Write them the French way, with a comma before the cents and the symbol after the number: 12,99 € or 12,99 $. The narrator names the currency in French. Check long prices in the preview before you publish.
Listen for h-words such as héros and for "et" followed by a vowel. If a link sounds off, rephrase the sentence or split it into its own block and regenerate just that block.
Yes. Type them as you would in an email and the narrator says them in English inside the French sentence. If your audience prefers French terms, such as courriel in Quebec, write those instead.
Yes. Import the book into the Audiobook Creator, review the chapters it finds, choose a narrator, and regenerate any paragraph you edit. Check each retailer's or distributor's current audio rules yourself, since approval is up to them.
Five formats are offered (MP3, WAV, Opus, FLAC, OGG). Grab the module whole, or one track per block if your LMS wants separate clips. Selling or publishing French audio commercially is covered by paid plans, per the subscription terms.
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