Translate French video to English
Translate French video to English, from Paris to Montréal to Dakar, with false friends caught before they reach your viewers.
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- France, Québec, Belgium, Africa
- False friends caught
- Lip sync for close-ups
What is the best way to translate a French video into English?
Upload the French video and choose English subtitles, an English voice that keeps the speaker’s tone, or the voice with lip sync. French from France, Québec, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa is understood, and false friends are translated by meaning. The first minute is free; subtitles then cost 0.2 credits a minute.
- Accents
- France, Québec, BE, CH, Africa
- Voice-over
- 1.5 credits per min
- Subtitles
- 0.2 credit per min
- Lip sync
- 5 credits per min
- First minute
- Free
- Biggest file
- 2 GB
An old fisherman’s story, told in English
A documentary-style clip: the pauses and the weight of the voice carry over.
Demo clip: AI-generated presenter, translated and lip-synced by the same pipeline you’ll use.
False friends we never let through
French words that look like English but mean something else — the classic machine-translation trap.
| Français | Looks like | Actually means |
|---|---|---|
| actuellement | actually | currently |
| une librairie | a library | a bookshop |
| éventuellement | eventually | possibly |
| sensible | sensible | sensitive |
| assister à | assist | attend |
| une location | a location | a rental |
Regional French, read correctly
The same word can mean different things depending on where it is said.
Tu or vous? English has one “you”
So the politeness moves into the words around it.
Street interviews and documentaries
Vox pops, oral histories and reportage, made watchable for English audiences.
Interviews mix two or more speakers with café noise behind them. Each speaker gets a separate English voice, and the street sound stays underneath.
For documentary work, many editors prefer English subtitles at 0.2 credits a minute so the original voices are still heard; switch to a voice-over only where it helps.
- Speaker changes detected
- Café noise kept under the voices
- Subtitles or voice-over per clip
Québécois creators
Joual, anglicisms and all — translated by someone who gets the joke.
Québec French uses expressions that confuse tools trained on Paris French: “c’est plate” (it’s boring), “pantoute” (not at all), “il fait frette” (it’s freezing). They come out as the English a Canadian would say.
English words already in the speech — “cute”, “cheap”, “weekend” — are left as they are.
Which output fits your French video?
Pick by content type; you can change your mind per upload.
French to English in three steps
The editor shows French and English side by side.
- 1UploadInterview, vlog or class recording.
- 2Pick the outputLip sync for faces close to camera.
- 3DownloadThe English video, the French transcript, both subtitles.
Other language pairs
Every pair has its own page. All 70+ languages work both ways for subtitles, and 65+ for dubbing.
Discover more tools
Everything you need to take one video into many languages.
Frequently asked questions
Can it translate Québec French video to English?
Yes. Québécois expressions and anglicisms are recognised and rewritten as natural English. If a word is local to your region, correct it once in the script or add it to the glossary.
How are false friends like “actuellement” handled?
The translation works sentence by sentence for meaning, so “actuellement” becomes “currently” and “librairie” becomes “bookshop”. You can still check every line before voicing.
What does it cost to translate French video to English?
The first minute is free. English subtitles use 0.2 credits a minute, an English voice 1.5 and lip sync 5. The Starter pack is $9.90 for 15 credits.
Is lip sync worth it for French videos?
For talking heads close to the camera, yes — French mouth shapes are very visible. For interviews filmed from a distance or with b-roll, a voice or subtitles alone is enough.
Will the English keep the “vous” politeness?
English has no formal “you”, so formality is carried by word choice: “could you” instead of “can you”, “please” where it fits.
Does it understand French from Africa?
Yes. French spoken in West and Central Africa is transcribed and translated, including common local words.
Can I get French and English subtitles in one file?
Yes. Download a bilingual SRT or VTT with both lines in each cue, or separate files for each language.
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