Upload the recording or paste a link. The entretien comes back as French text — what was said, in the language it was said in — with each turn marked in the transcript view and every word timed against the audio. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript · packs from $4 for 500 minutes.
How it works
One interview per file keeps a project tidy.
Drop the file into the box above or paste a link. Up to 500 MB goes straight in; a long entretien continues on the upload page, which allows 10 hours or 5 GB.
Each turn is marked with a numbered speaker label in the transcript view, so a long answer does not merge into the question that follows it.
Click a word to hear it in place. Export TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, MD or JSON when the text is doing what you need.
One language, several accents
There is nothing to set per region before you upload.
An interview between a journalist in Paris and a subject in Montréal is one recording, not two jobs. Both sides are written as French.
Turns of phrase particular to Québec are written the way they were said. Broad joual is the harder end of the language, so read those passages against the audio.
Septante and nonante come out as spoken rather than being rewritten into soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix — which matters when a figure is the point of the quote.
Interviews recorded in Dakar, Abidjan or Kinshasa transcribe as French. Room noise and a distant microphone cost far more accuracy than the accent does.
What the transcript holds
For reporting, fieldwork and oral history in French.
Whether your subject says tu or vous is written as said. When the formality of an exchange is itself part of the story, it survives into the text.
A summary is free and readable in full at any length, which is longer than most entretiens run — no pack needed to see whether it works for your audio.
The numbered labels live in the transcript view. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT download as words alone; JSON is the export that records who said each segment.
Before a quote reaches an editor, click it and listen. Proper nouns and figures are where a minute of checking pays for itself.
Pricing
A pack from $4 opens the full transcript. After that, one-time packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes and $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
Fifteen entretiens of forty minutes come to 600 minutes, inside the $8 pack of 1,000 — about $0.32 for each interview.
FAQ
Yes. The transcript is the French that was spoken, written out. It is not converted into English — French audio gives French text, and that is the file you download.
On screen, yes. Each turn carries a numbered speaker label in the transcript view, so the exchange reads as an exchange rather than one block of prose.
No. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT hold the words alone. JSON is the one export that records which speaker said each segment.
Both are handled without a setting. Very broad joual is harder than a studio interview in Paris, so allow a little review time for those recordings.
Yes, when the source lets its audio be fetched. Otherwise upload the file: up to 500 MB in the box here, larger ones on the upload page.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file, and your first transcript is readable in full at any length.
DOCX or TXT to read and annotate, MD for a plain-text workflow, and JSON when the speaker and timing of every segment need to travel with the words.
Instant preview, no signup. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript.