Picute

French audio and video to text

Paste a YouTube link or upload a recording in French. Picute writes out what was said, with a timestamp on every word.

Enter YouTube URL
0/10 URLs
You can enter up to 10 YouTube URLs.

The basics

Input
YouTube links (up to 10 at a time), video or audio files, Google Drive
Languages
Speech recognition in 60 languages
Output
SRT and VTT subtitle files, or an MP4 with the subtitles burned in
Length and size
No limit on video length or file size
Cost
1 credit per minute of transcription. Sign-up includes 10 credits, and free-plan exports carry a watermark. See pricing

Set the spoken language

Choose French as the spoken language in the form, or leave it on auto-detect.

About French (Français)

Speakers
Around 80 million native and over 280 million total speakers
Writing system
The Latin alphabet
Language family
Romance (Indo-European)
Varieties
Metropolitan (France), Canadian (Québec), Belgian and African French

What makes French hard to transcribe

French is hard for speech recognition because of liaison (normally silent final consonants that attach to the next word), elision (a dropped vowel, as in l'ami) and many homophones such as the -er, -é and -ez endings.

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