Supported languages and language-specific features

The languages supported by Amazon Transcribe are listed in the following table; also listed are the features that are language-specific. Please verify that the feature you want to use is supported for the language in your media before proceeding with your transcription.

To view the complete list of Amazon Transcribe features, refer to the Feature summary.

In the following table, 'batch' refers to transcribing a media file located in an Amazon S3 bucket and 'streaming' refers to transcribing streamed media in real time. For Call Analytics transcriptions, 'post-call' refers to transcribing a media file located in an Amazon S3 bucket and 'real-time' refers to transcribing streamed media in real time.

Language	Language code#	Data input	Transcribing numbers	Acronyms	Custom language models	Redaction	Call Analytics*
Abkhaz	ab-GE	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Afrikaans	af-ZA	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Arabic, Gulf	ar-AE	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	post-call
Arabic, Modern Standard	ar-SA	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Armenian	hy-AM	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Asturian	ast-ES	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Azerbaijani	az-AZ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Bashkir	ba-RU	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Basque	eu-ES	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Belarusian	be-BY	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Bengali	bn-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Bosnian	bs-BA	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Bulgarian	bg-BG	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Catalan	ca-ES	batch, streaming	streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Central Kurdish, Iran	ckb-IR	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Central Kurdish, Iraq	ckb-IQ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Chinese, Cantonese	zh-HK (yue-HK)	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Chinese, Simplified	zh-CN	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	post-call
Chinese, Traditional	zh-TW	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Croatian	hr-HR	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Czech	cs-CZ	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Danish	da-DK	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Dutch	nl-NL	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
English, Australian	en-AU	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	streaming	post-call, real-time
English, British	en-GB	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	streaming	post-call, real-time
English, Indian	en-IN	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
English, Irish	en-IE	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
English, New Zealand	en-NZ	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	no
English, Scottish	en-AB	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
English, South African	en-ZA	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	no
English, US	en-US	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	post-call, real-time
English, Welsh	en-WL	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
Estonian	et-ET	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Farsi	fa-IR	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Finnish	fi-FI	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
French	fr-FR	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
French, Canadian	fr-CA	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Galician	gl-ES	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Georgian	ka-GE	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
German	de-DE	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	post-call, real-time
German, Swiss	de-CH	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
Greek	el-GR	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Gujarati	gu-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Hausa	ha-NG	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Hebrew	he-IL	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Hindi, Indian	hi-IN	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	batch	no	post-call
Hungarian	hu-HU	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Icelandic	is-IS	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Indonesian	id-ID	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Italian	it-IT	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Japanese	ja-JP	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	post-call
Kabyle	kab-DZ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Kannada	kn-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Kazakh	kk-KZ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Kinyarwanda	rw-RW	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Korean	ko-KR	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	post-call
Kyrgyz	ky-KG	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Latvian	lv-LV	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Lithuanian	lt-LT	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Luganda	lg-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Macedonian	mk-MK	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Malay	ms-MY	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Malayalam	ml-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Maltese	mt-MT	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Marathi	mr-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Meadow Mari	mhr-RU	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Mongolian	mn-MN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Norwegian Bokmål	no-NO	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Odia/Oriya	or-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Pashto	ps-AF	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Polish	pl-PL	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Portuguese	pt-PT	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
Portuguese, Brazilian	pt-BR	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Punjabi	pa-IN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Romanian	ro-RO	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Russian	ru-RU	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	no
Serbian	sr-RS	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Sinhala	si-LK	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Slovak	sk-SK	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Slovenian	sl-SI	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Somali	so-SO	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Spanish	es-ES	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call
Spanish, US	es-US	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	post-call, real-time
Sundanese	su-ID	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swahili, Kenya	sw-KE	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swahili, Burundi	sw-BI	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swahili, Rwanda	sw-RW	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swahili, Tanzania	sw-TZ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swahili, Uganda	sw-UG	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Swedish	sv-SE	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Tagalog/Filipino	tl-PH	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Tamil	ta-IN	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Tatar	tt-RU	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Telugu	te-IN	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Thai	th-TH	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Turkish	tr-TR	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Ukrainian	uk-UA	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Uyghur	ug-CN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Uzbek	uz-UZ	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Vietnamese	vi-VN	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no
Welsh	cy-WL	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Wolof	wo-SN	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Zulu	zu-ZA	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	no

*The following Call Analytics insights are only supported in select English dialects:

• Call summarization: en-* (all English dialects)

• Issue detection: en-AU, en-GB, en-US

^#Language Code not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) (US-West, us-gov-west-1), AWS GovCloud (US) (US-East, us-gov-east-1), or Africa (Cape Town, af-south-1) regions:

• Language code: ab-GE ,ast-ES ,az-AZ ,ba-RU ,be-BY ,bg-BG ,bn-IN ,bs-BA ,ca-ES ,ckb-IQ ,ckb-IR ,cs-CZ ,cy-WL ,el-GR ,et-ET ,eu-ES ,fi-FI ,gl-ES ,gu-IN ,ha-NG ,hr-HR ,hu-HU ,hy-AM ,is-IS ,ka-GE ,kab-DZ ,kk-KZ ,kn-IN ,ky-KG ,lg-IN ,lt-LT ,lv-LV ,mhr-RU ,mi-NZ ,mk-MK ,ml-IN ,mn-MN ,mr-IN ,mt-MT ,no-NO ,or-IN ,pa-IN ,pl-PL ,ps-AF ,ro-RO ,rw-RW ,si-LK ,sk-SK ,sl-SI ,so-SO ,sr-RS ,su-ID ,sw-BI ,sw-KE ,sw-RW ,sw-TZ ,sw-UG ,tl-PH ,tt-RU ,ug-CN ,uk-UA ,uz-UZ ,wo-SN ,zu-ZA

Supported programming languages

Amazon Transcribe supports the following AWS SDKs:

Batch transcriptions	Streaming transcriptions
.NET	.NET (Transcribe Medical and HealthScribe is not supported)
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)	The CLI is not supported for streaming.
C++	C++
Go	Go
Java V2	Java V2
JavaScript	JavaScript V3
PHP V3	PHP V3
Python Boto3	Python Streaming SDK for Amazon Transcribe
Ruby V3	Ruby V3
Rust	Rust

For information on using SDKs with Amazon Transcribe, refer to Transcribing with the AWS SDKs.

For more information on all available AWS SDKs and builder tools, refer to Tools to Build on AWS.

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You can find SDK code samples in these GitHub repositories:

• AWS Code Examples

• Amazon Transcribe Examples