# French text to speech: MP3 voice-overs

**Use case:** 

Turn French texts into natural MP3 voice-overs, one file per text. Each text returns a dataset item with the audio URL, its duration and the character count, so you can plug the files into videos, e-learning or a phone menu. Billed per 100 characters.

## Input

```json
{
  "texts": [
    "Bonjour et bienvenue. Dans cette leçon, nous allons voir comment préparer un budget simple en trois étapes.",
    "Votre rendez-vous est confirmé pour jeudi à quatorze heures. Merci de vous présenter dix minutes en avance."
  ],
  "language": "french",
  "voice": "female",
  "quality": "standard",
  "speed": "1.0",
  "outputFormat": "mp3",
  "maxTexts": 200
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "outputUrl": {
    "label": "Audio",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "characters": {
    "label": "Chars",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "durationMs": {
    "label": "Duration (ms)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "voice": {
    "label": "Voice",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Text to Speech API — Batch, 30+ Languages, Pay per Character](https://apify.com/sherwood/text-to-speech-batch.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/sherwood/text-to-speech-batch.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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