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# Language Support

> Comprehensive language support powered by OpenAI's Whisper model.

## Overview

SkyScribe supports transcription in **99 languages** and translation between these languages, powered by OpenAI [Whisper](https://openai.com/index/whisper/)'s training on 680,000 hours of diverse audio data.

## Supported Languages

SkyScribe supports transcription in the following 99 languages:

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="A-D Languages" icon="a">
    * 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)
    * Burmese / Myanmar (my)
    * Catalan (ca)
    * Chinese (zh)
    * Cantonese (yue)
    * Croatian (hr)
    * Czech (cs)
    * Danish (da)
    * Dutch (nl)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="E-I Languages" icon="e">
    * 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)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="J-N Languages" icon="j">
    * Japanese (ja)
    * Javanese (jw)
    * Kannada (kn)
    * Kazakh (kk)
    * Khmer (km)
    * Korean (ko)
    * Kurdish (ku)
    * Kyrgyz (ky)
    * 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)
    * Nepali (ne)
    * Norwegian (no)
    * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="O-Z Languages" icon="o">
    * 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)
    * Turkish (tr)
    * Turkmen (tk)
    * Ukrainian (uk)
    * Urdu (ur)
    * Uzbek (uz)
    * Vietnamese (vi)
    * Welsh (cy)
    * Yiddish (yi)
    * Yoruba (yo)
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

<Note>
  Performance varies based on factors like audio quality, accents, and technical vocabulary. We recommend testing with your specific use case to ensure it meets your needs.
</Note>

## Translation Support

SkyScribe can translate audio between the 99 supported languages.

**How it works:**

1. **Transcription** - Your audio is first transcribed in its original language
2. **Translation** - The transcript is then translated using the model's built-in translation capabilities

## Language Detection

SkyScribe can automatically detect the language spoken in your audio, or you can manually specify the language for better accuracy.

### Auto-Detect

Auto-detect is convenient when you're unsure of the language or processing multiple audio files with different languages.

**Benefits:**

* Saves time - no need to manually specify the language
* Fast and automatic - language is identified as transcription begins
* Works well with clear, single-language audio

### Manual Selection (Recommended for Best Results)

Specifying the language manually provides better accuracy when you know what language is spoken in your audio.

**Choose manual selection when:**

* **You know the language** - Better transcription quality when you specify the exact language
* **Mixed-language audio** - Specify the primary language when audio contains multiple languages
* **Specialized dialects** - Better accuracy for specific regional variants
* **Consistency** - Ensure the same language processing across multiple files
* **Challenging audio** - More reliable when background noise may affect auto-detection

## Accent and Dialect Variations

Our AI model shows improved robustness to diverse accents compared to many existing systems, but performance can vary.

**Strengths:**

* Handles major regional accents well (e.g., American, British, Australian English)
* Better performance with international accents than most specialized models
* Trained on diverse speaker demographics

**Limitations:**

<Note>
  The model exhibits disparate performance across different accents, dialects, and demographic groups. Word error rates may be higher for certain speakers.
</Note>

**Factors that can affect accuracy:**

* Regional dialects and non-standard pronunciations
* Speaker demographics (age, gender, ethnicity)
* Code-switching between languages
* Heavy accents or unique speech patterns

## Best Practices for Multilingual Transcription

To get optimal results when transcribing in different languages:

1. **Use high-quality audio** - Clear speech improves accuracy across all languages
2. **Specify the language** manually if auto-detect struggles with your dialect
3. **Review transcripts** for critical applications to ensure accuracy
4. **Report issues** to help us improve support for your language

## What's Next?

You've learned about SkyScribe's language support and best practices for multilingual transcription.

**Want to learn more?**

* Explore the [Whisper model](/guides/whisper-model) powering transcription
* Learn about [translation](/guides/translation) to convert transcripts between languages

## Need Help?

If you have questions about language support, accuracy, or specific dialect handling:

* Check our [Model documentation](/guides/whisper-model) to learn about the AI powering transcription
* Contact our support team at [support@sky-scribe.com](mailto:support@sky-scribe.com)
* Report language-specific issues to help us improve