Supported Languages
This page lists all languages currently supported by Speech is Cheap for transcription. While the API can automatically detect the language of your audio in many cases, you can also explicitly specify the language using the language parameter in the API request.
Language Codes
Use the two-letter ISO 639-1 language codes from the following table (e.g., en for English, es for Spanish):
| Name | Code |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assamese | as |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Bashkir | ba |
| Basque | eu |
| Belarusian | be |
| Bengali | bn |
| Bosnian | bs |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Cantonese | yue |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese | zh |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Estonian | et |
| Faroese | fo |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| Galician | gl |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Haitian Creole | ht |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hawaiian | haw |
| Hebrew | he |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Indonesian | id |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Javanese | jw |
| Kannada | kn |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Khmer | km |
| Korean | ko |
| Lao | lo |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian | lv |
| Lingala | ln |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Luxembourgish | lb |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malagasy | mg |
| Malay | ms |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Maltese | mt |
| Maori | mi |
| Marathi | mr |
| Mongolian | mn |
| Myanmar | my |
| Nepali | ne |
| Norwegian | no |
| Nynorsk | nn |
| Occitan | oc |
| Pashto | ps |
| Persian | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Serbian | sr |
| Shona | sn |
| Sindhi | sd |
| Sinhala | si |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Spanish | es |
| Sundanese | su |
| Swahili | sw |
| Swedish | sv |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tajik | tg |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tatar | tt |
| Telugu | te |
| Thai | th |
| Tibetan | bo |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Uzbek | uz |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Welsh | cy |
| Yiddish | yi |
| Yoruba | yo |