Voice-to-text for client follow-up notes in French
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for sales reps who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with French and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in French
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless French transcriptions today.
Hands-free input
Keep your hands free while composing French text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.
Professional vocabulary
Soniox App handles specialized French terminology and professional language with accuracy.
Easier on your body
Reduce strain from extended French typing sessions. Voice Typing lets you write comfortably for longer.
Boost productivity
Get more French text written in less time. Voice Typing removes the bottleneck between thinking and having finished text.
Voice input that works everywhere in French
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles French across varieties like Metropolitan French and Canadian French.
Works in any text field
Dictate French into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.
Desktop and mobile
French Voice Typing works system-wide on desktop and mobile — no plugins or integrations required.
One tap to dictate
Activate French Voice Typing with a single tap and start speaking. Text appears instantly wherever your cursor is.
Smart punctuation
Soniox App adds French punctuation, capitalization, and formatting automatically as you speak.
French at a glance
Key facts about French.
native name
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
French is spoken in France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Canada, Madagascar, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Guinea, Rwanda, Belgium, Burundi, Benin, Haiti, Switzerland, Togo, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti, Luxembourg, Vanuatu, Seychelles, and Monaco. Soniox App is trained on real-world French speech from multiple regions and accents.
French transcription accuracy
Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed inhouse by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on French transcription compared to 8 other providers.
| Provider | WER (French) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 5.7% | 94.3% |
| AssemblyAI | 8.3% | 91.7% |
| Speechmatics | 8.3% | 91.7% |
| OpenAI | 9.4% | 90.6% |
| ElevenLabs | 9.8% | 90.2% |
| Deepgram | 10.7% | 89.3% |
| AWS | 10.9% | 89.1% |
| Azure | 12.4% | 87.6% |
| 15.3% | 84.7% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms AssemblyAI, Speechmatics, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, AWS, Azure, and Google on French transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with French and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in French and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.
Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit
Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.
One app. Everything you do with voice in French.
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Transcribe conversations in real time with Soniox.
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Learn everything Soniox can do
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Built for any use case
From clinical documentation to creative workflows, Soniox App is built for the situations where accurate transcription and translation matter most.
Meeting transcription
Capture every decision and action item from meetings automatically.
Lecture transcription
Record complete lecture transcripts for study and accessibility.
Medical dictation
Document clinical encounters hands-free with professional accuracy.
Hearing accessibility
Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.
Travel translator
Communicate across language barriers with real-time spoken translation.
Voice notes
Capture ideas and thoughts hands-free and turn them into searchable text.
Private by default
Soniox never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then gone.
French language trivia
Bonjour - that's how you say hello in French.
History and background
- history
French was the international language of diplomacy and high culture from the 17th to the mid-20th century.
- history
The Académie française, founded in 1635, has served as the official authority on the French language.
- history
French is an official language in 29 countries, spanning five continents.
Distinctive features
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French liaison connects a final consonant to the next word's initial vowel in continuous speech.
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French has nasal vowels (as in "bon," "vin," "un") that are uncommon in other Romance languages.
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Many final consonants in French are silent, creating a large gap between spelling and pronunciation.