Translate French to Chinese
Audio & video to text, then translated
To translate French to Chinese, upload or record your French audio or video with LiteScribe, get an accurate French transcript with speaker labels and timestamps, then translate the transcript into Chinese in one click. You keep both versions, and it works free on web, desktop, mobile, and the Chrome extension.
Transcribe and translate
Turn your French audio into clean Chinese text
Record or upload your French audio and get accurate Chinese text. AI transcription in 100+ languages, with summaries, speaker labels, timestamps, and one-click export.
Discussion covered Q4 marketing strategy with focus on social media expansion. Key decision: Launch new campaign by Feb 15th.
"Let's focus on the social media strategy for Q4..."
"I agree, we should allocate more budget there."
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Accuracy
100+
Languages
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Record in one language, read it in another
Capture a conversation in French and read it back in Chinese, with both versions side by side. The same flow works across 100+ languages, so your whole team can follow along in the language they prefer.
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LiteScribe transcrit vos enregistrements en français puis les traduit en chinois en un clic, ce qui est idéal pour le commerce entre les marchés francophones et la Chine. Liaisons et accents français sont gérés correctement, et la version chinoise est rédigée en caractères simplifiés avec une segmentation des mots correcte. Vous conservez les deux versions, avec 300 minutes gratuites chaque mois et sans carte bancaire.
使用 LiteScribe，你可以转录法语录音，并一键翻译成中文。你可以同时保留法语原文和中文译文，方便与中国团队分享。免费开始，无需信用卡。
Why translate French to Chinese with LiteScribe
Simplified characters
The Chinese translation is written in Simplified characters with correct word segmentation, so it reads naturally for readers in mainland China.
Liaison resolved first
French liaison and elision are resolved on the transcript, so the Chinese translation reflects clean word boundaries rather than blurred ones.
Speaker labels carry over
Diarization on the French audio means the Chinese translation preserves who said what.
Free to start
300 minutes every month on the free plan covers most calls and short videos.
What makes French and Chinese distinct
French
Francais
- Family
- Romance
- Script
- Latin (LTR)
- Speakers
- ~310 million across five continents
- Where
- France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada (Quebec), and large parts of West and Central Africa
French is full of liaison and elision: final consonants link into the next word ("les amis" sounds like "lezami") and vowels contract ("je ai" becomes "j'ai"), so word boundaries are acoustically blurred. Nasal vowels and silent endings mean the model leans heavily on context, and accented characters (e, e, a, c) must be preserved for the text to read correctly.
Chinese
中文
- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Script
- Han (Simplified) (LTR)
- Speakers
- ~1.1 billion (Mandarin, first and second language)
- Where
- Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese-speaking communities worldwide
Mandarin Chinese is tonal, with four main tones plus a neutral tone that change a syllable's meaning entirely ("ma" can mean mother, hemp, horse, or scold), so tone matters for correct transcription. Written Chinese has no spaces between words and no inflection, so the transcript segments a continuous run of Han characters into meaningful units, and measure words plus context resolve number and tense that the characters do not mark.
A worked example
French (source)
Merci de votre presence; nous allons revoir les chiffres du trimestre avant de passer aux questions.
Chinese (translation)
感谢各位参加；在进入提问环节之前，我们先来看一下本季度的数据。
The French "les chiffres du trimestre" becomes the Chinese phrase for this-quarter figures, and the formal opening maps to the natural Chinese phrase for thanking attendees, with correct measure words.
Who uses French to Chinese
- 1
French companies localizing product, training, or partner recordings for a China-based team
- 2
French webinars and content subtitled in Chinese for the mainland market
- 3
French investor or supplier calls summarized in Chinese for a China market team
How it works
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Add your French audio or video
Upload a French audio or video file, paste a YouTube, podcast, or meeting link, or record live with the desktop app or Chrome extension. MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, and most common formats are supported.
- 2
Transcribe the French speech
LiteScribe returns a clean French transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, automatic punctuation, an AI summary, and topic tags. Select French or let automatic language detection identify it.
- 3
Translate the transcript to Chinese
Translate the finished French transcript into Chinese in one click. You keep both versions, so you can read the original French alongside the Chinese translation.
- 4
Edit, ask AI, and export
Tidy any names or terms, ask the built-in AI questions about the content in either language, then export to DOCX, PDF, TXT, or SRT subtitles for sharing.
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