French text to speech
French is written with a great many letters nobody pronounces, and joined by several that only surface when the following word opens with a vowel. Liaison and elision are not decorative polish applied at the end — they are the mechanism that makes a sentence sound French instead of a row of separate words recited in sequence.
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146/500Nasal vowels compound the difficulty. Identical letter sequences yield completely different sounds depending on what comes after them, and any reader that follows spelling literally gets them wrong in a way anyone who speaks the language notices within the first clause.
For publishers working across French-speaking markets, the valuable property is repeatability: one narrator, one saved set of pronunciations covering the proper nouns in your material, and delivery that holds identical from a first upload through a fiftieth.
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Regional delivery
- French
Every voice speaks every supported language, so one narrator can carry your whole catalogue across markets.
French production details
Liaison across word boundaries
Final consonants that surface before a following vowel are joined as a native reader joins them, rather than clipped off mid-phrase.
Silent endings stay silent
Unpronounced letters closing a word are left unspoken instead of being sounded out from the way the word is spelled.
Nasal vowels voiced properly
Letter combinations producing nasal sounds are read as those sounds, not split back into a plain vowel plus a consonant.
Proper nouns pinned down
Save the reading for the names and places in your material so a long series never drifts on the words that carry meaning.
56 studio voices (30 premium, paid plans) · 20 output languages · SRT captions and bulk mode on every plan
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25,000 characters
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$7/month
About 3 hours on the Creator plan
Questions, answered
Is liaison applied automatically between words?
Yes. Consonants that surface before a following vowel are joined the way a native reader would join them, which is precisely what keeps a sentence flowing instead of sounding like separate items on a list.
Are silent letters at the end of words pronounced?
No, they stay silent. Reading French literally from its spelling is the most common failure in generated speech and it registers immediately with any speaker of the language.
How are accented characters treated?
Accents alter vowel quality and sometimes separate two entirely different words, so they are read as pronunciation information. Leave them intact in whatever text you paste in.
Can it produce Quebec rather than European delivery?
The available voices read a broadly European standard. Market-specific vocabulary is a writing decision that stays entirely yours, and a saved rule can adjust individual words that ought to sound different.
What happens to English loanwords inside French text?
They are read within the French phonetic frame by default, which is normally what a local audience expects to hear. A rule restores the original pronunciation wherever a brand insists on it.