French Speech to Text
Convert French speech-to-text with high accuracy, low latency, and enterprise-grade scalability. Deepgram delivers real-time and batch transcription through a developer-first speech-to-text API.
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Fast and accurate French speech recognition for real-world audio
Get real-time French speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Build French Voice Agents with Flux Multilingual
Build and scale global voice agents with one model
Supports 10 languages in a single conversational model, enabling teams to build and deploy voice agents globally with one integration. No per-language infrastructure or model orchestration required.
Ultra-low latency conversational speech recognition
Model-based turn detection delivers accurate end-of-turn decisions in under 400 ms, keeping conversations fluid and responsive across languages.
Monolingual-grade accuracy with real-time control
Flexible real-time control through language hints or automatic detection, with native code-switching and dynamic adaptation as conversations evolve.
French Language Overview
Speakers: 312 million total speakers
Regions: France, Canada (Quebec), Belgium, Switzerland, North America, Africa, Caribbean
Dialects: Metropolitan French, Quebec French, Acadian French, Swiss French, Belgian French, African French varieties
Writing system: Latin alphabet with diacritics (accents aigu, grave, circonflexe, diaeresis, cedilla)
Language family: Indo-European > Romance > Western Romance > Gallo-Romance
French is widely used across Europe, North America, Africa, and the Caribbean, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, healthcare transcription, media captioning, legal proceedings, educational content, and multilingual voice agents serving global Francophone markets.
French Speech-to-Text Capabilities
Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure French transcripts out of the box.
Diarization
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker French conversations.
Smart formatting
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for French text.
Search
Instantly find words or phrases inside long French recordings without reprocessing audio.
Utterances
Segment streaming French audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Punctuation
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to French transcripts for easy reading.
Redaction
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from French transcripts.
French Speech-to-Text features
Keyterm prompting for French
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in French audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.
Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in French and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Multilingual speech recognition
Transcribe audio where speakers switch between French and other supported languages in the same stream without model swapping or post processing required.
Scale beyond French with one API
Start with French speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Frequently Asked Questions
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