Comment transcrire un audio en texte
Déposez votre fichier dans la zone d'import : MP3, M4A, WAV, note vocale WhatsApp, ou vidéo MP4, MOV ou WebM, dont la piste audio est extraite automatiquement. Vous pouvez aussi enregistrer avec le micro de votre navigateur ou coller un lien YouTube ou TikTok. Le français est présélectionné sur cette page.
Au bout de quelques minutes, le texte apparaît en paragraphes horodatés. Le lecteur surligne la ligne en cours. Cliquez sur une ligne pour réécouter le passage et corrigez le mot sur place. Exportez ensuite en TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT ou CSV. L'essai se fait sans inscription, et un compte gratuit permet de conserver la transcription.
French typography and capitals to fix by hand
A speech model writes words, and French print has conventions that go beyond the words themselves. These are the details editors in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec look for, and the transcript does not always apply them.
- Spacing before ; : ? and !. French print puts a narrow space before these marks. The transcript may follow English-style punctuation with no space, so a find-and-replace in Word fixes the whole file at once. Quebec usage differs here, so follow your publisher.
- Guillemets. Quotes in French use « … », and a transcript may contain none or straight quotes. Add them where a speaker quotes someone.
- Accents on capitals. É, À and Ç at the start of a sentence (État, À demain) are recommended in France and standard in Quebec. Check sentence starts and proper names such as Écosse or Émilie.
- Lowercase days, months and languages: lundi, novembre, le français. Nationality nouns take a capital (les Français), adjectives do not (un film français).
- Hyphens in inversions and numbers: dit-il, a-t-elle, vingt-deux, trente et un. Fast speech can lose the t in a-t-on.
- Dropped ne. Speakers say je sais pas. Decide whether you want a verbatim record or written French (je ne sais pas), and apply that choice throughout.
Numbers, dates and times in French format
French writes a decimal comma and a space for thousands: 3,5 %, 10 000 habitants. The euro sign follows the amount, as in 12,50 €. A transcript may mix these with English-style figures, so read every number that will be quoted.
Dates are written le 4 novembre 2026 or 04/11/2026, day first. The first of the month is le 1er, and ordinals are written 2e, 3e, not 2ème. Centuries are traditionally in small Roman numerals: le XXe siècle.
Times use the 24-hour clock with h: 14 h 30 or 14h30. When a speaker says deux heures et demie in the afternoon, the transcript writes what was said. Convert it if your minutes need a fixed format.
Phone numbers are said in pairs in France (06 12 34 56 78). A transcript may group them differently or write some pairs as words, so check every digit.
Checklist before you send the transcript
A short pass with the audio open covers most problems. Work through these points in order.
- Proper names: people, communes, companies and acronyms such as CAF or URSSAF.
- Agreement of past participles where a sentence was cut short or interrupted.
- Punctuation spacing, guillemets and capitals with accents.
- Numbers, percentages, amounts and dates in one consistent style.
- Verbatim or written French: keep or restore ne, euh and repetitions according to your purpose.
- For subtitles, open the SRT in your video tool and check line breaks.
- Turn timestamps or speaker names on or off at export, depending on the reader.
French recordings people transcribe
Typical uploads include semi-structured interviews for a mémoire de master, recordings of cours magistraux, minutes of a copropriété general meeting or a conseil municipal, podcasts, YouTube interviews, and voice notes from family. Speaker labels, which show who said what, are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.
For a mémoire, keep timestamps on in the DOCX export so your director can find each quote in the recording. For a compte rendu, switch them off and keep only the speaker names.