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Our Audio Transcription API accepts BCP47 language tags. This page lists every tag the API accepts today (89 locale codes, plus multi for multilingual transcription).

Languages

Tags not listed here are rejected with a validation error on upload and streaming endpoints. Use exact casing (for example en-US, not en-us).

Multilingual Support

Multilingual transcription detects and transcribes multiple languages in the same audio. Use it when speakers switch languages during the encounter.

Automatic multilingual routing

If you pass any of the following base language tags, the API routes the request through multilingual code-switching (the same upstream behavior as language=multi): For example, language=es and language=multi both use multilingual code-switching. To target a single Spanish locale without that routing, use a regional tag such as es-419.

Explicit multi tag

You may also pass multi directly:
multi is accepted on streaming endpoints. File upload accepts the locale codes in the table above; use multi on streaming when you want the same multilingual behavior without picking a base language first.