ModelsPre-recorded Speech-to-textLanguages

Set Language Manually

Global Englishen
Australian Englishen_au
British Englishen_uk
US Englishen_us
Spanishes
Frenchfr
Germande
Italianit
Portuguesept
Dutchnl
Hindihi
Japaneseja
Chinesezh
Finnishfi
Koreanko
Polishpl
Russianru
Turkishtr
Ukrainianuk
Vietnamesevi
Afrikaansaf
Albaniansq
Amharicam
Arabicar
Armenianhy
Assameseas
Azerbaijaniaz
Bashkirba
Basqueeu
Belarusianbe
Bengalibn
Bosnianbs
Bretonbr
Bulgarianbg
Burmesemy
Catalanca
Croatianhr
Czechcs
Danishda
Estonianet
Faroesefo
Galiciangl
Georgianka
Greekel
Gujaratigu
Haitianht
Hausaha
Hawaiianhaw
Hebrewhe
Hungarianhu
Icelandicis
Indonesianid
Javanesejw
Kannadakn
Kazakhkk
Khmerkm
Laolo
Latinla
Latvianlv
Lingalaln
Lithuanianlt
Luxembourgishlb
Macedonianmk
Malagasymg
Malayms
Malayalamml
Maltesemt
Maorimi
Marathimr
Mongolianmn
Nepaline
Norwegianno
Norwegian Nynorsknn
Occitanoc
Panjabipa
Pashtops
Persianfa
Romanianro
Sanskritsa
Serbiansr
Shonasn
Sindhisd
Sinhalasi
Slovaksk
Sloveniansl
Somaliso
Sundanesesu
Swahilisw
Swedishsv
Tagalogtl
Tajiktg
Tamilta
Tatartt
Telugute
Thaith
Tibetanbo
Turkmentk
Urduur
Uzbekuz
Welshcy
Yiddishyi
Yorubayo

Universaluniversal

US & EU

If you already know the dominant language of your audio file, you can use the language_code parameter to specify the language rather than using language detection.

1import assemblyai as aai
2
3aai.settings.api_key = "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
4
5# audio_file = "./local_file.mp3"
6audio_file = "https://assembly.ai/wildfires.mp3"
7
8config = aai.TranscriptionConfig(
9    speech_models=["universal-3-pro", "universal-2"],
10    language_code="es"
11)
12
13transcript = aai.Transcriber(config=config).transcribe(audio_file)
14
15if transcript.status == "error":
16  raise RuntimeError(f"Transcription failed: {transcript.error}")
17
18print(transcript.text)

See the Supported languages section below for all supported languages and their codes.

Supported languages

AssemblyAI offers two different levels of speech-to-text models for pre-recorded audio: Universal-3-Pro and Universal-2. Check out the Models page of our documentation to learn more about our different models and how to choose the best one for your use case.

Universal-3-Pro

Universal-2

Breakdown of Universal-2 language support

English, Spanish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Catalan

Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Mandarin Chinese, Czech, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese

Afrikaans, Belarusian, Welsh, Persian (Farsi), Hebrew, Armenian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Latvian, Māori, Marathi, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil

Amharic, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hausa, Javanese, Georgian, Khmer, Kannada, Luxembourgish, Lingala, Lao, Malayalam, Mongolian, Maltese, Burmese, Nepali, Occitan, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Shona, Somali, Serbian, Telugu, Tajik, Uzbek, Yoruba