Supported languages

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 wish to use is supported for the language in your media file before proceeding with your transcription. To view the Amazon Transcribe features that are available for all supported languages, refer to What is Amazon Transcribe?

Supported languages and language-specific features
Language	Language Code	Speech input	Transcribing digits	Acronyms	Custom language models	Redaction	Call analytics
Afrikaans	af-ZA	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
Arabic, Gulf	ar-AE	batch only	no	no	no	no	yes
Arabic, Modern Standard	ar-SA	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Chinese, Simplified	zh-CN	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	yes (batch only)
Chinese, Traditional	zh-TW	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Danish	da-DK	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
Dutch	nl-NL	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
English, Australian	en-AU	batch, streaming	yes	yes	yes (batch only)	no	yes (batch only)
English, British	en-GB	batch, streaming	yes	yes	yes (batch only)	no	yes (batch only)
English, Indian	en-IN	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	yes
English, Irish	en-IE	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	yes
English, New Zealand	en-NZ	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	no
English, Scottish	en-AB	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	yes
English, South African	en-ZA	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	no
English, US	en-US	batch, streaming	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes (batch only)
English, Welsh	en-WL	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	yes
French	fr-FR	batch, streaming	no	yes	no	no	yes (batch only)
French, Canadian	fr-CA	batch, streaming	no	yes	no	no	yes (batch only)
Farsi	fa-IR	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
German	de-DE	batch, streaming	yes	yes	no	no	yes (batch only)
German, Swiss	de-CH	batch only	yes	yes	no	no	yes
Hebrew	he-IL	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Hindi, Indian	hi-IN	batch only	no	yes	yes (batch only)	no	yes
Indonesian	id-ID	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
Italian	it-IT	batch, streaming	no	yes	no	no	yes (batch only)
Japanese	ja-JP	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	yes (batch only)
Korean	ko-KR	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	yes (batch only)
Malay	ms-MY	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
Portuguese	pt-PT	batch only	no	yes	no	no	yes
Portuguese, Brazilian	pt-BR	batch, streaming	no	yes	no	no	yes (batch only)
Russian	ru-RU	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Spanish	es-ES	batch only	no	yes	no	no	yes
Spanish, US	es-US	batch, streaming	no	yes	yes (batch only)	no	yes (batch only)
Tamil	ta-IN	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Telugu	te-IN	batch only	no	no	no	no	no
Thai	th-TH	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no
Turkish	tr-TR	batch only	no	yes	no	no	no