World's Most Accurate French Speech-to-Text

Built for every French speaker in France and Canada at sub-70ms latency

Click anywhere to start transcribing

Experience pulse speech to text

World's Most Accurate French Speech-to-Text

Built for every French speaker in France and Canada at sub-70ms latency

Click anywhere to start transcribing

Experience pulse speech to text

World's Most Accurate French Speech-to-Text

Built for every French speaker in France and Canada at sub-70ms latency

Click anywhere to start transcribing

Experience pulse speech to text

French Transcription Benchmarks

French Transcription Benchmarks

French Transcription Benchmarks

Model
Streaming
Batch
Smallest
4.5% WER
4.0% WER
Scribe v2
7.8% WER
6.9% WER
Deepgram
11.2% WER
9.9% WER
Whisper large v3
6.8% WER
6.0% WER

World’s Most Advanced Speech Intelligence

Go beyond text with automated speaker labeling, real-time sentiment analysis, and intelligent language identification for global production workloads.

World’s Most Advanced Speech Intelligence

Go beyond text with automated speaker labeling, real-time sentiment analysis, and intelligent language identification for global production workloads.

World’s Most Advanced Speech Intelligence

Go beyond text with automated speaker labeling, real-time sentiment analysis, and intelligent language identification for global production workloads.

Language overview

French language overview

About

Romance language originating in France. Uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics. A major international language featuring gender agreement and liaison phonology.

Speakers

280 million

Official language

France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and 28 others

Accents

Parisian (Standard), Quebec, Belgian, Swiss, African French

Spoken language demographic

France, Canada, Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, and global diaspora

For Developers

Automate. Orchestrate. Dominate with code

Build real-time speech pipelines with Node and Python SDKs. Audio in, transcription out — no middleware, no complexity.

For Developers

Automate. Orchestrate. Dominate with code

Build real-time speech pipelines with Node and Python SDKs. Audio in, transcription out — no middleware, no complexity.

For Developers

Automate. Orchestrate. Dominate with code

Build real-time speech pipelines with Node and Python SDKs. Audio in, transcription out — no middleware, no complexity.

01// Node.js 18+. This sample transcribes English audio with Pulse.02// Use your own audio and a documented language code for other languages.03const audioResponse = await fetch("https://github.com/smallest-inc/cookbook/raw/main/speech-to-text/getting-started/samples/audio.wav");04if (!audioResponse.ok) throw new Error(await audioResponse.text());05const audio = await audioResponse.arrayBuffer();06const response = await fetch("https://api.smallest.ai/waves/v1/stt/?model=pulse&language=en", {07 method: "POST",08 headers: {09 Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SMALLEST_API_KEY}`,10 "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",11 },12 body: audio,13});14if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());15console.log((await response.json()).transcription);

Certified & Compliant

Guarding your data with enterprise security

Certified & Compliant

Guarding your data with enterprise security

Certified & Compliant

Guarding your data with enterprise security

Proactive Defense

Anticipating threats before they emerge, thanks to our advanced monitoring.

Proactive Defense

Anticipating threats before they emerge, thanks to our advanced monitoring.

Proactive Defense

Anticipating threats before they emerge, thanks to our advanced monitoring.

Frequently
asked questions

Which French dialects does Pulse support?

Does Pulse handle French-English code-switching?

What's the latency?

Is speaker diarization built in?

What makes Pulse different from Deepgram or AssemblyAI?

Can I use Pulse for real-time voice agents?

Languages

From your city to Timbuktu,
we hear you.

Languages

From your city to Timbuktu,
we hear you.