French AI voiceover

The French voices, with samples

Each sample reads the same line so you can compare them fairly.

What typing French actually selects

One word in the Language field makes two decisions at once. The director now writes every narration line and every on-screen headline in French, whatever language your brief arrived in, and the synthesiser is locked to the fr-FR locale, because a premium voice's name embeds its locale and cannot cross it. Québécois French is therefore a manual step: plan the video as French, then use any scene's voice dialog to search the live catalogue for an fr-CA voice and apply it. The written script stays metropolitan unless your brief asks for Canadian phrasing explicitly.

Reading styles and when each is cast

Four styles exist in male and female form. Puck and Laomedeia push energy for ads and social spots; a UGC style video defaults to them too. Charon and Erinome deliver the measured instructional read, and a tutorial cannot be given anything else, since the energetic pair is blocked for tutorials at the code level. Umbriel and Sulafat suit the boutique, the café, the testimonial. Iapetus and Aoede are for the neutral corporate register. The full voice identifier looks like fr-FR-Chirp3-HD-Sulafat, which is a useful thing to recognise in the voice dialog's search results.

Pace, pauses and the music underneath

French takes noticeably longer than English to say the same thing, and scene timing accounts for it by stretching each scene to its audio rather than truncating the voice. Where you want air, give a scene a start delay in seconds; where the read drags, nudge the speed anywhere from 0.85x to 1.25x, in the steps the dialog offers. An ellipsis at the end of a sentence buys a natural pause. The soundtrack ducks itself to 22 percent whenever narration plays, easing in and out over a dozen frames, so a talky video never needs its music manually keyframed.

Getting numbers and names spoken correctly

Write out any number whose spoken form you care about, quatre-vingt-quinze euros rather than 95 €, since French numerals invite exactly the hesitations you would expect. Liaison is handled well by the voices, but foreign names are not guaranteed: respell them in the narration until the read is right, because no phonetic control exists. Punctuation earns its keep twice, shaping the intonation and cutting the caption cues. One quiet rule from the prompt: generated narration never contains an em dash, and adding one by hand mostly produces an awkward gap where a comma would flow.

Captions in this script

French captions light up word by word in step with the voice, timed from the clip itself rather than estimated. Every accented character French uses, é, è, ê, ç, œ and the rest, ships in each catalogue font's Latin extension, so any look renders them cleanly. The pill is a fixed dark panel holding white text, pinned above the safe margin, 44 pixels on landscape and 120 on vertical. French elision means many short words; the pill spaces them naturally, but a sentence past 48 characters splits into a second cue, so tight sentences caption best.

A video narrated in French

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