French text-to-speech
French is served by five engines — both Qwen3-TTS variants, Chatterbox Multilingual, TADA's multilingual build and Kokoro — so the constraint is not whether you can generate French, it is which voice you want it in.
Kokoro's French coverage is the thinnest of any language it supports: exactly one preset voice, and it is female. That is a real limitation and it is the reason this page exists rather than a template — if you need a male French preset, Kokoro is not the engine, and Chatterbox Multilingual with a cloned or alternative voice is the path. French is written in Latin script, so long-form generation behaves the same way English does and needs none of the script-density handling Chinese or Hindi require.
The engines that speak French
- Qwen3-TTS
- Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice
- Chatterbox Multilingual
- TADA
- Kokoro
Every engine on that list is on the same plan — there is no per-engine surcharge and no tier that unlocks one. You choose per generation.
One caveat on TADA: it ships in two sizes and only the larger, multilingual build speaks French. Its smaller and faster model is English-only, so a French job has to be on the right one.
Voices you can start from
PRESET VOICES
Kokoro contributes 1 preset French voice. Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice ships no natively French preset speaker, so a preset used here is a voice speaking outside its own language.
YOUR OWN VOICE
Chatterbox Multilingual clones from a short reference clip in all 23 languages, Frenchincluded — which is the answer whenever no preset is close enough. Cloning requires that the voice is your own or that you have the speaker’s explicit permission, on every plan.
Long French scripts
French is written in Latin script, so long scripts are split and stitched exactly the way English ones are, with no script-density adjustment needed. What varies over a long piece is prosody rather than mechanics — it is worth auditioning two engines on a real paragraph rather than on one line.
One plan, every engine and every language: $8 a month for 2 hours of generated audio, with a 7-day free trial.
Engine coverage on this page is pinned to the studio’s own language map by a cross-package test, so it cannot drift from what you are actually offered. See the engines page for what maintaining them involves, and audio rights for what you may do with the result.