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.
"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)
{
"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:
|
| 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
| Language | Locale code |
|---|---|
| Abkhaz | ab-GE |
| Afrikaans | af-ZA |
| Arabic, Gulf | ar-AE |
| Arabic, Modern Standard | ar-SA |
| Armenian | hy-AM |
| Asturian | ast-ES |
| Azerbaijani | az-AZ |
| Bashkir | ba-RU |
| Belarusian | be-BY |
| Bengali (India) | bn-IN |
| Bosnian | bs-BA |
| Bulgarian | bg-BG |
| Catalan | ca-ES |
| Central Kurdish (Iran) | ckb-IR |
| Central Kurdish (Iraq) | ckb-IQ |
| Chinese, Cantonese | zh-HK |
| Chinese, Simplified | zh-CN |
| Chinese, Traditional | zh-TW |
| Croatian | hr-HR |
| Czech | cs-CZ |
| 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 |
| Estonian | et-EE, et-ET |
| Finnish | fi-FI |
| French | fr-FR |
| French, Canadian | fr-CA |
| Farsi | fa-IR |
| Gaelic, Scottish | gd_GB |
| Galician | gl-ES |
| Georgian | ka-GE |
| German | de-DE |
| German, Swiss | de-CH |
| Greek | el-GR |
| Gujarati | gu-IN |
| Hausa | ha-NG |
| Hebrew | he-IL |
| Hindi, Indian | hi-IN |
| Hungarian | hu-HU |
| Icelandic | is-IS |
| Indonesian | id-ID |
| Irish, Ireland | ga-IE |
| Italian | it-IT |
| Japanese | ja-JP |
| Kabyle | kab-DZ |
| Kannada | kn-IN |
| Kazakh | kk-KZ |
| Kinyarwanda | rw-RW |
| Korean | ko-KR |
| Kyrgyz | ky-KG |
| Latvian | lv-LV |
| Lithuanian | lt-LT |
| Luganda | lg-IN |
| Macedonian | mk-MK |
| Malay | ms-MY |
| Malayalam | ml-IN |
| Maltese | mt-MT |
| Marathi | mr-IN |
| Meadow Mari | mhr-RU |
| Mongolian | mn-MN |
| Norwegian Bokmål | no-NO |
| Odia/Oriya | or-IN |
| Pashto | ps-AF |
| Polish | pl-PL |
| Portuguese | pt-PT |
| Portuguese, Brazilian | pt-BR |
| Punjabi | pa-IN |
| Romanian | ro-RO |
| Russian | ru-RU |
| Serbian | sr-RS |
| Sinhala | si-LK |
| Slovak | sk-SK |
| Slovenian | sl-SI |
| Somali | so-SO |
| Spanish | es-ES |
| Spanish, US | es-US |
| Sundanese | su-ID |
| Swahili (multiple locales) | sw-KE, sw-RW, sw-TZ, sw-UG, sw-BI |
| Swedish | sv-SE |
| Tagalog / Filipino | tl-PH |
| Tamil | ta-IN |
| Tatar | tt-RU |
| Telugu | te-IN |
| Thai | th-TH |
| Turkish | tr-TR |
| Ukrainian | uk-UA |
| Uyghur | ug-CN |
| Uzbek | uz-UZ |
| Vietnamese | vi-VN |
| Welsh (cy) | cy-WL |
| Wolof | wo-SN |
| Zulu | zu-ZA |
