Transcription Languages

Choose the language spoken in your recording, then decide whether you need a transcript, subtitles or a translation.

Start with a language guide for practical settings and review advice. The complete lists below separate transcription support from translation support.

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Language-specific guides

  • English transcription

    Transcribe English audio and video into editable text. Choose US, UK or Australian English, review speakers and terminology, then export transcripts or subtitles.

  • Spanish transcription

    Turn Spanish audio and video into editable Spanish text. Review accents, names and regional vocabulary, export subtitles, or translate the transcript into English.

  • Japanese transcription

    Turn Japanese audio and video into editable Japanese text. Review kanji, names and speaker changes, export subtitles, or translate the transcript into English.

  • Korean transcription

    Turn Korean audio and video into editable Korean text. Review spacing, names and speaker changes, export subtitles, or translate the checked transcript into English.

  • French transcription

    Turn French audio and video into editable French text. Review accents, names and speaker changes, export subtitles, or translate the transcript into English.

  • German transcription

    Turn German audio and video into editable German text. Review compound words, names and technical terms, export subtitles, or translate the transcript into English.

  • Vietnamese transcription

    Turn Vietnamese audio and video into editable Vietnamese text. Check tone marks, names and speaker turns, export subtitles, or translate into English.

  • Thai transcription

    Turn Thai audio and video into editable Thai text. Review word boundaries, names and tone marks, export subtitles, or translate the transcript into English.

  • Mandarin → Traditional Chinese

    Taiwanese terminology and Traditional Chinese output.

  • Mandarin → Simplified Chinese

    Mandarin recordings with Simplified Chinese output.

Supported transcription settings

These are recording-language choices, including regional and writing-system variants. A supported setting does not mean that every accent or mixed-language recording has been tested equally.

  • Arabic (Egypt)
  • Armenian (Armenia)
  • Bosnian (BiH)
  • Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
  • Burmese (Myanmar)
  • Cantonese (Simplified Cantonese Output)
  • Cantonese (Simplified Chinese Output)
  • Cantonese (Traditional Cantonese Output)
  • Cantonese (Traditional Chinese Output)
  • Catalan (Spain)
  • Chinese (China)
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Croatian (Croatia)
  • Czech (Czech Republic)
  • Danish (Denmark)
  • Dutch (Belgium)
  • English (Australia)
  • English (United Kingdom)
  • English (United States)
  • Filipino (Philippines)
  • Finnish (Finland)
  • French (France)
  • Galician (Spain)
  • German (Germany)
  • Greek (Greece)
  • Gujarati (India)
  • Hebrew (Israel)
  • Hindi (India)
  • Hungarian (Hungary)
  • Indonesian (Indonesia)
  • Italian (Italy)
  • Japanese (Japan)
  • Korean (South Korea)
  • Latvian (Latvia)
  • Lithuanian (Lithuania)
  • Macedonian (North Macedonia)
  • Malay (Malaysia)
  • Norwegian (Norway)
  • Polish (Poland)
  • Portuguese (Portugal,Brazil)
  • Romanian (Romania)
  • Russian (Russia)
  • Slovak (Slovakia)
  • Slovenian (Slovenia)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish (Sweden)
  • Tamil (India)
  • Telugu (India)
  • Thai (Thailand)
  • Turkish (Turkey)
  • Ukrainian (Ukraine)
  • Uzbek (Uzbekistan)
  • Vietnamese (Vietnam)

Supported translation languages

Translation creates a new language version of a transcript. Its available languages differ from the transcription settings above.

Explore translation and bilingual subtitles
  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Basque
  • Belarusian
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Corsican
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latin
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Yiddish
  • Zulu

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