Yes, this page reads French out loud. Type or paste your French text, keep the language set to French, and press Generate speech: any of the built-in voices turns it into audio, and you can download the result as an MP3 without an account.
How to convert French text to speech
- Write or paste your French text. Put the text in the box with its accents (é, è, à, ç and the rest): they are part of the spelling, and the voice reads what is written. A text longer than one conversion allows is cut into parts at sentence breaks, generated part by part, and joined back into a single MP3.
- Keep the language on French. This page opens with French already selected in Settings, next to the speed control, so you only change it if you have switched languages mid-session.
- Pick a voice. Every voice in the tool can read French, so the choice is about tone, not language: audition two or three with the same sentence before you commit one to a longer script.
- Press Generate speech, then Download MP3. The audio plays in the page and saves to your device as a 24 kHz, 128 kbps MP3, with no watermark and nothing added over it.
How much you can convert without paying:
- Without an account: 20 uses a day, up to 1,000 characters each.
- Signed in with Google (free): up to 1,000 characters per use, 20 uses an hour, 5,000 characters a day and 50,000 characters a month.
- Free accounts on the same network share 10,000 characters a day.
How to write French text that sounds natural
Write every accent. Accents are not decoration in French: they mark which sound a letter stands for, and sometimes they tell two words apart. "ou" and "où" are different words, and so are "a" and "à". Type é, è, ê, à, ù, ç where the spelling calls for them, and the voice reads the word the way it is written. Copy your text from a French source rather than retyping it, and the accents come along on their own.
Spell elision and liaison the standard way. Write the standard forms: "l'oiseau", "j'ai", "qu'elle", with the apostrophe in place. You do not need to spell out how words link in speech or hint at liaisons; standard written French is what the voice expects, and phonetic spellings get read literally.
Let the punctuation do the pacing. The read takes its breaks where the
sentence has them: a comma is a short pause, a full stop a longer one, and
a question mark or exclamation mark sets the tone of the line. Where you
want a pause the punctuation does not give you, use the tool's [pause]
tag, and short sentences stay easier to follow than long ones.
For other languages, longer texts and the whole voice list, open the free text to speech tool.
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