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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Get real-time French speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Speakers: 80 million native 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.
Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure French transcripts out of the box.
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker French conversations.
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for French text.
Instantly find words or phrases inside long French recordings without reprocessing audio.
Segment streaming French audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to French transcripts for easy reading.
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from French transcripts.
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.
Start with French speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing French audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.
