Set language manually | AssemblyAI

If you already know the dominant language, you can use the language_code key to specify the language of the speech in your audio file.

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

To see all supported languages and their codes, see Supported languages.