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French AI Receptionist
Give your French-speaking customers a helpful answer, even when your team is busy. Our AI receptionist answers in French or English, takes enquiries and messages, books appointments and puts callers through to your staff when they need a person.
- Speaks French and English
- Parisian and Canadian French voices
- Answers 24/7
French call
CamilleParisian French accent
ÉtienneCanadian French accentCaller
Bonjour, je voudrais réserver l'excursion en bateau de samedi pour deux personnes.
Hello, I'd like to book Saturday's boat trip for two people.
Camille
Bonjour, avec plaisir. Il reste des places au départ de neuf heures et de quatorze heures. Lequel vous convient ?
Hello, with pleasure. There are seats left on the 9am and 2pm departures. Which suits you?
Caller
Quatorze heures, s'il vous plaît.
2pm, please.
What is a French AI receptionist?
A French AI receptionist answers your business phone in French or English, so visitors, students and business contacts get answers, bookings and messages taken without waiting for a staff member.
Waboom AI offers two voices: Camille with a Parisian accent and Étienne with a Canadian French accent. Built for businesses across New Zealand and Australia.
Answering and making calls for businesses across New Zealand and Australia
Try our French AI receptionists
Hear the difference between Parisian and Canadian French. Talk to Camille or Étienne in English or French, switch back and forth during the call, or mix the two, and they follow you.
Multilingual receptionistCamille
Parisian French accent
Start in English, then switch to French.
Multilingual receptionistÉtienne
Canadian French accent
Ask him in French, then switch to English.
Your own AI receptionist is set up around your business: opening hours, services, bookings and how calls are passed to your staff.
Where French-language phone answering helps
For businesses that welcome French-speaking visitors, students and trading partners, an answer in French makes the first call easy.
International education
Answer French-speaking students and parents about courses, intakes, homestays and enrolment steps, including calls that arrive overnight from another time zone. The receptionist books a call with your international team and sends them a summary in English.
Tours and activities
Visitors from France, New Caledonia, Tahiti and Canada can check times, meeting points and availability, and book in French.
Hotels, restaurants and hospitality
Reservations, check-in times, directions and approved menu questions in French, while your front desk looks after the guests in front of them.
Exporters and professional services
Give French-speaking clients and partners in the Pacific and Europe a polished first answer. The receptionist takes the enquiry, books a meeting and passes it to the right person.
Retail and online stores
Opening hours, stock questions, order follow-ups and click and collect in French, with anything unusual passed to your team.
How we set up your French AI receptionist
Three steps. We do the heavy lifting.
Tell us about your callers
Which languages they speak, what they call about, and what a good call ends with: a booking, a message or a transfer.
We build and test it in French
Your greeting, hours, services and booking rules in English and French, tested on calls with your own names and places.
Go live on your number
Forward your existing number. Every call comes with a transcript and summary, and we keep improving it.
What makes French-language calls different?
Speaking French well on the phone takes more than translating English sentences.
Parisian and Canadian voices
Camille speaks with a Parisian accent and Étienne with a Canadian French one. French speakers from Belgium, Switzerland, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Africa can talk to Camille or Étienne too, but these are the only two voices on offer. Try both and choose the one that suits your callers.
Vous and tu
French separates a polite "vous" from a familiar "tu", and getting it wrong on a first call sounds rude or stiff. The receptionist uses "vous" by default. A surf school or backpacker hostel can choose a more relaxed tone, and we review it with you before go-live.
Numbers the French way
French counts 70 as "soixante-dix" and 80 as "quatre-vingts", Belgian and Swiss callers may say "septante" and "nonante", and phone numbers in France are often said in pairs. Numbers spoken in French were transcribed correctly in our tests, and the receptionist reads a New Zealand or Australian number back digit by digit to confirm it.
French with English place names
A caller from Nouméa or Papeete will say "Rotorua", "Queenstown" or "Gold Coast" in the middle of a French sentence. The receptionist hears French and English in the same call, including a caller who mixes them, and we test your own place and product names before go-live.
An example call in French
A visitor books two seats on a boat trip and the agent reads his number back. Illustrative example, not a recording.
Caller
Bonjour, je voudrais réserver l'excursion en bateau de samedi pour deux personnes.
Hello, I'd like to book Saturday's boat trip for two people.
Camille
Bonjour, avec plaisir. Il reste des places au départ de neuf heures et de quatorze heures. Lequel vous convient ?
Hello, with pleasure. There are seats left on the 9am and 2pm departures. Which suits you?
Caller
Quatorze heures, s'il vous plaît.
2pm, please.
Camille
Très bien. À quel nom dois-je faire la réservation, et quel est votre numéro de téléphone ?
Very good. What name should I put the booking under, and what is your phone number?
Caller
Au nom de Dubois. Mon numéro, c'est zéro deux un, trois quatre cinq, six sept huit neuf.
Under Dubois. My number is 021 345 6789.
Camille
Je vous relis le numéro : zéro deux un, trois quatre cinq, six sept huit neuf. C'est bien ça ?
Let me read the number back: 021 345 6789. Is that right?
Caller
Oui, c'est ça.
Yes, that's it.
Camille
Parfait, c'est noté au nom de Dubois : deux places pour l'excursion de samedi à quatorze heures. Merci et à samedi !
Perfect, that's booked under Dubois: two seats on Saturday's 2pm trip. Thank you, see you on Saturday!
What the AI can handle
- Answers calls in English and French
- Books, moves and cancels appointments when connected to your calendar
- Answers common questions from your business information
- Takes messages and sends a call summary to your team
- Transfers a caller to your staff when they need a person
- Covers after-hours and busy periods
Regulated industries
For health, aged care, legal, financial and immigration businesses the agent handles admin enquiries only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. It does not give medical, legal or financial advice in French or English. Those questions go to your qualified staff.
Pay for talk time only
French calls cost the same per minute as English. Load credit once, it never expires, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
See full pricing- New Zealand
- 95c to 77c a minute
- Plus GST, from $500 of credit
- Australia
- 95c to 71c a minute
- In AUD, from A$500 of credit
Plus $130 a month for the platform. The more credit you load, the less each minute costs.
Rated 5.0 on Google
Read all reviews on Google (opens in a new tab)- ★★★★★
The AI Receptionist has been fantastic for our team at Rangehood Solutions. It’s taken a huge amount of workload off us, especially when we’re a staff member down, and means we can keep looking after customers without calls being missed.
Rangehood Solutions
AI receptionist client, New Zealand
- ★★★★★
It handles hundreds of calls a day, prospecting, qualifying sellers, and building a pipeline for future deals. … Not a set-and-forget service, they actually care about results.
James Mairs
Auckland apartment agency
- ★★★★★
Getting an entire team, from our IT manager to our admin staff, aligned on AI is not easy. Leo made it look easy! … No hype. No theory.
Shiv Narayan
Technology Solutions NZ
$253,000 saved in one year, by no one being pulled off their work to answer phones.
Every call used to cost someone about 25 minutes: the call itself, then getting back into their work. Across the team that added up to more than 1,650 hours a year. Now their AI receptionist answers every call.
- 4,000 calls answered in a year
- 1,650+ hours of team time back
- <1 sec to answer, every time
Every call answered, every booking captured
AI receptionistCalls answered, messages passed, transfers made
GML Lawyers' AI receptionist answers inbound calls, takes and passes messages to the right person, and transfers callers within their existing VoIP system.
Bookings taken while hands are full
While the stylists are mid-colour, the AI receptionist answers, books the appointment, and texts the client a confirmation. No ringing phone, no lost chair.
Switch off, let the AI hold the phone
Start delegating the admin to AI and get your time back. Your receptionist answers every call, books the job, and passes only the urgent ones to you.
French AI receptionist: common questions
Which French accents does the AI receptionist speak?
Two: Camille has a Parisian female voice and Étienne a Canadian French male voice. There is no Belgian, Swiss, Pacific or African French voice. Callers with those accents can talk to either agent, and before go-live we run test calls with your own callers so you can hear it for yourself.
Can callers switch between English and French?
Yes. The receptionist hears French and English in the same call, including a caller who mixes the two. Callers can switch back and forth as often as they like and the agent follows, replying in the language they last used.
Does it understand phone numbers spoken in French?
Yes. Phone numbers spoken in French were transcribed correctly in our tests. The receptionist also reads numbers back to the caller before saving them, so any mistake gets fixed on the call.
Will it use vous or tu with callers?
It uses the polite "vous" by default, which is what most French speakers expect when they call a business. If your brand is more relaxed, such as a surf school or hostel, we can set a warmer tone and review it with you.
Can I try a French demo now?
Yes. Talk to the French agents on this page, in your browser. Calls run for up to four minutes.
Can we keep our 1300 or 1800 number?
Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to the AI receptionist, all the time or only when you are busy, do not answer or are closed. A mobile number can forward the same way. You do not need a new number.
Can it transfer calls to our staff and send a summary?
Yes. It can put a caller through to a staff member's mobile when they need a person, and it sends a summary of every call to your team, with the transcript in your portal.
Can it give medical, legal or financial advice in French?
No. In regulated industries the agent handles admin only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. Anything that needs advice goes to your qualified staff.
Does a French receptionist cost more than English?
No. French calls are charged at the same per-minute rate as English, from 95c a minute down to 77c in New Zealand and 71c in Australia. Credit never expires and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Where is call data stored?
Transcripts, call records, contact details and billing are stored in Sydney. The live audio, recording files, speech processing and the language model run offshore. We meet cross-border accountability requirements through documented arrangements with our voice infrastructure partner.
Ready to welcome more French-speaking customers?
Tell us what your customers usually call about, and we will show you how a French-speaking AI receptionist would handle those calls.
- Answers in French and English, around the clock
- Built around your services, hours and booking rules
- Credit that never expires, from $500
- Every plan backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee
Choose a time on our calendar. It takes less than a minute.
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