Text to speech · Français
Pāṇini TTS speaks French for customers in France, Canada, and West and North Africa, with the same voice and price as every other language.
Votre contrat d'assurance habitation Sonex arrive à échéance le quinze novembre. Le renouvellement est de trente-deux euros par mois, et vous recevrez un lien par SMS pour le confirmer en deux minutes.
Voices
Free to play in your browser without an account, up to 220 characters at a time. To save the audio as a file, sign up free for 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card required: the dashboard saves WAV and the API returns MP3.
Making a video? See AI voice-over for YouTube and Reels. The audio is yours to use on monetised channels.
Last verified 24 October 2026
Céleste, a native French platform voice, reads the playground above. Any Sonex Labs voice can also read French, keeping its own accent, and a voice cloned from a 10-second recording of a French speaker carries that speaker's accent.
Sign up free, then send French text to the API with "output_format": "mp3" and save the file, or generate clips in the dashboard and download them. Scripts longer than the playground's 220 characters work the same way.
About French
French pronunciation lives between the words. Liaison links a silent final consonant to the next vowel ("les_enfants", "vous_avez"), elision drops vowels ("l'adresse", "j'ai"), and many written endings are never said at all. A call script also has to choose vous or tu: a bank, clinic or utility almost always says vous, while some brands aimed at young customers use tu. The samples on this page use vous and are read by Céleste, a native French platform voice.
Most French speakers do not live in France. Quebec has its own accent and vocabulary ("magasiner", "courriel"), Belgium and Switzerland say septante and nonante instead of soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix, and in Abidjan, Dakar, Casablanca or Algiers, French on the phone is often mixed with Wolof, Dioula or Darija. Pāṇini reads code-mixed text in one voice, and the same voice can switch to Arabic or English for the next customer.
Use cases
Operators and banks in Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Morocco reach customers in French, with the option of the same voice in Arabic or English.
Clinics, dentists and public services confirm appointments to cut no-shows, using vous and the 24-hour clock.
Retailers and service companies answer Quebec customers in French, as many expect, and switch to English when a caller does.
Commercial use
The full wording is in our terms of service.
YouTube
Yes, AI voices are allowed. What YouTube limits is mass-produced, repetitive content: videos made from a template with little original work. Its July 2025 update renamed that rule from “repetitious” to “inauthentic” content (YouTube’s monetisation policies).
Write your own script, add your own research or editing, and keep one consistent voice for the channel. Where a realistic AI voice could mislead viewers, use YouTube’s altered or synthetic content label. The monetisation decision is always YouTube’s.
Voice cloning
Clone your voice from a 10-second recording. Your clone speaks French, and every other language Pāṇini supports, in your own voice. The language comes from the text you type, so a clone recorded in English or Hindi can read a French script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking French, not like a different native speaker. Every free account includes one voice clone. Clone only your own voice, or a voice whose owner has agreed.
API
One request returns French audio as MP3. The language is detected from the text, so no language setting is needed. Pāṇini TTS starts streaming audio in under 200 ms (time to first byte).
1curl https://api.sonexlabs.com/v1/speech \2 --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \3 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \4 --data '{"text": "Votre contrat d'assurance habitation Sonex arrive à échéance le quinze novembre. Le renouvellement est de trente-deux euros par mois, et vous recevrez un lien par SMS pour le confirmer en deux minutes.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output french.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of French at a time with no account. Sign up free for 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card; after that it costs $0.03125 per 1,000 characters.
Yes, after free sign-up. The playground on this page plays audio in your browser only, up to 220 characters at a time, so you can check the voice first. Sign up free (10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card): the dashboard saves each clip as a WAV file with Download audio, and the API returns MP3 when you set "output_format": "mp3".
Yes, it reads standard French spelling with liaison and elision. Check names and brand terms in the audio before sending at scale.
It reads the vocabulary of any variety you write. Céleste, a native French voice, reads these samples; for a Quebec or West African accent, clone a local speaker from a 10-second sample.
Yes. Any Sonex Labs voice can speak any supported language, which suits brands serving the Maghreb in both.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language. The first 10,000 characters and one voice clone are free, with no card.
Yes. Audio you generate, on the free tier or with paid credits, can be used on monetised YouTube channels, Shorts, Reels and in ads, with no attribution. YouTube limits mass-produced, repetitive videos, not AI voices, so write your own script and keep your edits original. The monetisation decision is YouTube's.
The audio you generate is yours to use, including commercially, with no attribution and no royalties to Sonex Labs. You are responsible for the script itself: if you read someone else's text, you need their permission.
Yes. A Sonex voice clone is not tied to the language it was recorded in. Type a French script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with French pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking French.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe French audio with Valmiki speech to text.
10,000 free text-to-speech characters and one free voice clone that speaks every language, no card required. Every language is billed at the same rate.