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