{"kind":"guides","slug":"french-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/french-text-to-speech","title":"French Text to Speech, Free and Offline | SuperClonica","description":"French text to speech with AI voices: try any voice in French free online, then voice unlimited French text offline on your PC.","h1":"French text to speech: AI voices that read French","intro":"French is one of the 31 languages of Supertonic 3, the open text-to-speech model behind SuperClonica, so every voice in the catalog reads French: narrators, male and female voices, characters from games, anime, cartoons and films. You can hear any of them say your own French line for free, and voice long French texts offline on your own computer without a character limit.\n\nThis guide explains how to get the best French from it, honestly: how to write the text, what the engine does with numbers, what accent to expect and how to get the voice you need.","sections":[{"heading":"Try any voice in French for free","paragraphs":["On the page of any voice, choose French next to the text field, type a phrase of 30 to 100 characters and press Voice it. You hear your words in that voice in a few seconds and can download the recording. No account is needed."]},{"heading":"Write French the way it should sound","points":["Keep the accents (é, è, ê, à, ç) and the elision apostrophes (l’, d’, j’): they change vowels and how words link.","Numbers can stay as digits: the engine spells them as French words before synthesis.","Chat shorthand like “mdr”, “stp” or “svp” is written out as words for you.","Write liaisons the standard way; check unusual names in the free test."],"paragraphs":["Short sentences with clear punctuation sound the most natural."]},{"heading":"What accent to expect","paragraphs":["The voices in the catalog were made from English and Russian recordings. They keep their timbre in French, and the accent of the original can be heard, a little for some voices and more for others. No voice in the catalog is recorded in French yet: listen to the demo and your own line first, or make the first one."]},{"heading":"Get a voice recorded in French","paragraphs":["For a native French voice of your own, train one from a clean recording of 5 to 10 seconds in French, your own voice or a speaker who agreed, in the studio on a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card. No graphics card? Order the voice on the exchange: an author trains it from your recording, and you pay only after you accept it."]},{"heading":"Unlimited French offline","paragraphs":["For long texts, download the voice file and install the free SuperClonica engine: python -m pip install superclonica-cpu. Then voice a text file with one command: superclonica --text \"$(cat text.fr.txt)\" --voice voice.json --lang fr --output fr.wav. It runs on an ordinary processor, offline, with no character limit and no monthly fee."]}],"faq":[{"question":"Is French text to speech free and unlimited?","answer":"The online test reads 30 to 100 characters for free in any voice. With the voice file, the free SuperClonica engine reads unlimited French on your computer; some voices are free and others are bought once."},{"question":"Does it read numbers in French?","answer":"Yes. The engine spells digits as French words before synthesis; write ordinals and special forms in words if you need them."},{"question":"Can I get Canadian or Belgian French?","answer":"The model reads one French; a regional flavour comes from your wording and from the voice. A voice trained on a recording from that region sounds closest."},{"question":"Do I need a graphics card?","answer":"No. Voicing text runs on an ordinary processor; only training a new voice needs an NVIDIA graphics card."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine"},"sources":[{"label":"Supertonic 3 model card","url":"https://huggingface.co/supertone-oss-archive/supertonic-3"},{"label":"SuperClonica engine on PyPI","url":"https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/"}],"published":"2026-10-24","updated":"2026-10-24","pages":[{"slug":"offline-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/offline-text-to-speech","h1":"How to convert text to speech offline on your computer"},{"slug":"voice-cloning","path":"/guides/voice-cloning","h1":"Voice cloning: how to get a voice that sounds like a recording"},{"slug":"best-free-tts-models","path":"/guides/best-free-tts-models","h1":"The best free text-to-speech models for local use in 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