Transcribe French Audio to Text

Spoken French is famously different from written French. Liaisons blur word boundaries, unstressed syllables disappear in fast Parisian speech, and everyday conversation drops the "ne" in negations. If you are an English speaker with a French interview or lecture, typing it out yourself is slow even with good French.

1Transcribe runs OpenAI's Whisper, trained on enormous amounts of French audio, so it resolves liaisons and casual contractions into correctly written French — accents, cedillas, and apostrophes included. French from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and Africa is all supported, with automatic language detection.

Two intents, one tool:

A journalist with a 45-minute interview from Paris, a student with a semester of recorded French lectures, a family member with voice messages from relatives in Montreal — all get the same workflow. Upload the file (audio formats like MP3, WAV, M4A, OPUS or video like MP4 and MOV), and 1Transcribe handles single files up to 10 hours and 5 GB. Automatic speaker diarization labels who said what, which matters in panel discussions and two-person interviews alike.

On clear audio, 1Transcribe reaches up to 99.9% accuracy — including French proper names, numbers, and technical vocabulary that trip up older speech engines. Your recordings stay private: files are never used to train AI models and are deleted automatically after 14 days. There is nothing to install — it works in the browser and in the iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps.