Supported languages

We transcribe 100 languages and work out which one you’re speaking. The full lists sit at the bottom of this page, so check yours before you upload.

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How the language gets picked

The language starts on auto. Detection listens to the first 30 seconds of speech and uses what it hears for the whole recording.

You can also set it yourself on the upload page. Do that when the first speaker uses a different language from everyone else, or a short clip opens with an English greeting and then switches.

Recordings with more than one language

Each file gets one language. If a meeting moves between English and French, the transcript follows the detected or chosen language, and passages in the other may come out garbled or spelled by sound.

When one language dominates, pick it and fix the short passages by hand.
If the switch happens at a clear point, split the file there and upload two parts.
Need everything in English? Transcribe to English (below) is often the cleanest route.

Getting English from a non-English recording

Unlimited (fair use up to 720 hours a month) has two ways to English text. Transcribe to English is a checkbox on the upload page: the recording is transcribed in the spoken language, then each segment is translated, so the English keeps the original timestamps and speaker labels. Translation works on a transcript you already have and covers the 100+ target languages listed below.

Clean text in other languages

Record close to the speaker. Room echo hurts all speech recognition, smaller languages most.
Choose the language yourself for short clips. Thirty seconds isn’t much to go on.
Fix names and place names the model has never heard with find and replace.
Check numbers and dates, which vary in format between languages.
Turn on speaker labels when two people trade turns quickly; a mixed conversation gets much easier to review.

Quality differs by language. Widely spoken languages with lots of public training audio come out cleanest; languages with less recorded speech need more hand correction. Try a short file first if you’re unsure.

Single-language pages go deeper. Start with Spanish transcription, or see how video to text handles foreign-language video.

Every supported language

Transcription languages, on every plan

Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Azerbaijani
Bangla
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cantonese
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Māori
Marathi
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Sanskrit
Serbian
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yiddish
Yoruba

Translation languages, on Unlimited

Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (Yemen)
Armenian
Assamese
Asturian
Awadhi
Azerbaijani
Balinese
Bangla
Banjar
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bhojpuri
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cantonese
Catalan
Cebuano
Chhattisgarhi
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dutch
English
Estonian
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Iloko
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kabuverdianu
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Lao
Latvian
Ligurian
Limburgish
Lithuanian
Lombard
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Magahi
Maithili
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Marathi
Minangkabau
Nepali
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Odia
Pangasinan
Papiamento
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Sardinian
Serbian
Sicilian
Silesian
Simplified Chinese
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tok Pisin
Traditional Chinese
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Venetian
Vietnamese
Waray
Welsh
Yiddish

Language questions

Are all languages available on the Free plan?

Yes. All 100 transcription languages work on Free, paid plans and hour packs alike.

Can one file mix two languages?

A file is transcribed in one language. For recordings that switch, pick the main language or split the file.

Why isn’t my language on the translation list?

The list shows only languages that work today. More are planned, and they’ll appear here once they work.

Can I change the language after uploading?

If the wrong language was detected, upload the file again with the right one chosen. The new transcript replaces nothing until you delete the old one.

Do dialects and accents matter?

Strong accents and regional vocabulary can lower quality, as with any speech recognition. Clear audio helps more than anything else, and a short test file shows you what to expect.

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