# Speech To Text Languages - sttLanguage

The table on this page describes the languages available for realtime transcription.

## Usage

You specify the expected spoken language in the transcription `transcriptionOptions`.

```json
    sttLanguage: en-US
```

Note:
Accepted values are not case-sensitive. en-us and `en-US` are both acceptable values.

Transcribed content is streamed to customers near realtime via Websockets. Today this feature is only available as part of the VoiceRelay channel.

## Currently available STT Languages

| Language | Locale code |
|  --- | --- |
| Afrikaans | af-ZA |
| Albanian | sq-AL |
| Amharic | am-ET |
| Arabic | ar-SA |
| Armenian | hy-AM |
| Assamese | as-IN |
| Azerbaijani | az-AZ |
| Bashkir | ba-RU |
| Basque | eu-ES |
| Belarusian | be-BY |
| Bengali | bn-BD |
| Bosnian | bs-BA |
| Breton | br-FR |
| Bulgarian | bg-BG |
| Burmese | my-MM |
| Cantonese | yue-HK |
| Catalan | ca-ES |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | zh-CN |
| Croatian | hr-HR |
| Czech | cs-CZ |
| Danish | da-DK |
| Dutch | nl-NL |
| English | en-US |
| Estonian | et-EE |
| Faroese | fo-FO |
| Finnish | fi-FI |
| French | fr-FR |
| Galician | gl-ES |
| Georgian | ka-GE |
| German | de-DE |
| Greek | el-GR |
| Gujarati | gu-IN |
| Haitian Creole | ht-HT |
| Hausa | ha-NG |
| Hawaiian | haw-US |
| Hebrew | he-IL |
| Hindi | hi-IN |
| Hungarian | hu-HU |
| Icelandic | is-IS |
| Indonesian | id-ID |
| Italian | it-IT |
| Japanese | ja-JP |
| Javanese | jv-ID |
| Kannada | kn-IN |
| Kazakh | kk-KZ |
| Khmer | km-KH |
| Korean | ko-KR |
| Lao | lo-LA |
| Latin | la-VA |
| Latvian | lv-LV |
| Lingala | ln-CD |
| Lithuanian | lt-LT |
| Luxembourgish | lb-LU |
| Macedonian | mk-MK |
| Malagasy | mg-MG |
| Malay | ms-MY |
| Malayalam | ml-IN |
| Maltese | mt-MT |
| Māori | mi-NZ |
| Marathi | mr-IN |
| Mongolian | mn-MN |
| Nepali | ne-NP |
| Norwegian | nb-NO |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | nn-NO |
| Occitan | oc-FR |
| Pashto | ps-AF |
| Persian (Farsi) | fa-IR |
| Polish | pl-PL |
| Portuguese | pt-BR |
| Punjabi | pa-IN |
| Romanian | ro-RO |
| Russian | ru-RU |
| Sanskrit | sa-IN |
| Serbian | sr-RS |
| Shona | sn-ZW |
| Sindhi | sd-PK |
| Sinhala | si-LK |
| Slovak | sk-SK |
| Slovenian | sl-SI |
| Somali | so-SO |
| Spanish | es-ES |
| Sundanese | su-ID |
| Swahili | sw-KE |
| Swedish | sv-SE |
| Tagalog / Filipino | fil-PH |
| Tajik | tg-TJ |
| Tamil | ta-IN |
| Tatar | tt-RU |
| Telugu | te-IN |
| Thai | th-TH |
| Tibetan | bo-CN |
| Turkish | tr-TR |
| Turkmen | tk-TM |
| Ukrainian | uk-UA |
| Urdu | ur-PK |
| Uzbek | uz-UZ |
| Vietnamese | vi-VN |
| Welsh | cy-GB |
| Yiddish | yi-001 |
| Yoruba | yo-NG |