Transcription locales

The table on this page describes the available locales available for transcription.

Usage

You specify the expected spoken language in the transcription locale options.

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    "transcriptionOptions": {
    "enabled": true,
    "locale": "en-US"
    }
Note:

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

Once the transcription process has finished you will receivce a callback notification (example below shown for conference recording)

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{
  "event": "notify",
  "conferenceId": "myconferenceId",
  "version": 1,
  "type": "transcription_available",
  "destination": "s3://yourS3path/yourrecordingname-transcript.json"
}
Warning:

If an invalid locale is given, there will be no notification of a transcription being generated and an error will only be shown in the logs on the Sinch dashboard https://dashboard.sinch.com/voice/logs

TranscriptionOptions

Property Description
destinationUrl Transcriptions is an extra option of our recording feature, transcribed files will follow the same configurations set for the recording. Sinch supports the following destinations:
  • Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • Google Cloud Storage

To read more about how to configure each of these destinations, see the DestinationURL section.
credentials Specifies the information required for the Sinch platform to authenticate and/or authorize in the destination service in order to be able to store the file.

    Warning! Sinch recommends that your storage credentials have WRITE ONLY permission, as Sinch will only WRITE your data and should never READ from your cloud storage of choice.

Transcription Locale Table

Call Analytics Language code
Afrikaans af-ZA
Arabic, Gulf ar-AE
Arabic, Modern Standard ar-SA
Chinese, Simplified zh-CN
Chinese, Traditional zh-TW
Danish da-DK
Dutch nl-NL
English, Australian en-AU
English, British en-GB
English, Indian en-IN
English, Irish en-IE
English, New Zealand en-NZ
English, Scottish en-AB
English, South African en-ZA
English, US en-US
English, Welsh en-WL
French fr-FR
French, Canadian fr-CA
Farsi fa-IR
Gaelic, Scottish gd_GB
German de-DE
German, Swiss de-CH
Hebrew he-IL
Hindi, Indian hi-IN
Indonesian id-ID
Irish, Ireland ga-IE
Italian it-IT
Japanese ja-JP
Korean ko-KR
Malay ms-MY
Portuguese pt-PT
Portuguese, Brazilian pt-BR
Russian ru-RU
Spanish es-ES
Spanish, US es-US
Swedish sv-SE
Tamil ta-IN
Telugu te-IN
Thai th-TH
Turkish tr-TR
Vietnamese vi-VN
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