Upload an English recording, or record yourself speaking, and get it in French with each speaker and timestamp kept. It suits presentations for colleagues in France, Belgium or Quebec, course material, voice messages to French-speaking family, and French subtitles for videos.
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It follows the recording. A relaxed chat usually comes out with tu, a presentation or business call with vous. English "you" gives no clue, so the choice is made from context; if you need vous throughout, edit the text after downloading it.
The translation uses standard French as written in France, which readers in Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa understand. Words that differ in Quebec (courriel, magasiner) are not used by default, so review published material if your audience is Canadian.
Yes. Press Listen above the translation and your browser reads it with a French voice installed on your device. It is a synthetic voice, not the original speaker's, so it is useful for checking pronunciation or listening on the go rather than for dubbing a video.
Yes. Upload the video and download the French translation as .srt or .vtt. Each cue keeps the timing of the English line it translates, ready for YouTube, Premiere, CapCut or VLC.
Yes. You can translate up to 5 files per day (200MB each) free, with no account and no watermark. For unlimited recording and transcription, the Wave app has a free plan and paid plans from $80 a year or $15 a month.
Your file is uploaded to temporary storage, transcribed and translated. We may then keep a private copy of the audio and the original transcript to improve Wave's speech recognition. They are never published. Please don't upload recordings you aren't comfortable sharing with us.
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