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*
Afrikaans	af-ZA	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Arabic, Gulf	ar-AE	batch	no	no	no	no	post-call
Arabic, Modern Standard	ar-SA	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Chinese, Simplified	zh-CN	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	post-call
Chinese, Traditional	zh-TW	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Danish	da-DK	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Dutch	nl-NL	batch	no	batch	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	batch	batch	no	no	post-call
English, Irish	en-IE	batch	batch	batch	no	no	post-call
English, New Zealand	en-NZ	batch	batch	batch	no	no	no
English, Scottish	en-AB	batch	batch	batch	no	no	post-call
English, South African	en-ZA	batch	batch	batch	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	batch	batch	no	no	post-call
French	fr-FR	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
French, Canadian	fr-CA	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Farsi	fa-IR	batch	no	no	no	no	no
German	de-DE	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	post-call, real-time
German, Swiss	de-CH	batch	batch	batch	no	no	post-call
Hebrew	he-IL	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Hindi, Indian	hi-IN	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	batch	no	post-call
Indonesian	id-ID	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Italian	it-IT	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Japanese	ja-JP	batch, streaming	no	no	batch, streaming	no	post-call
Korean	ko-KR	batch, streaming	no	no	no	no	post-call
Malay	ms-MY	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Portuguese	pt-PT	batch	no	batch	no	no	post-call
Portuguese, Brazilian	pt-BR	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	no	no	post-call, real-time
Russian	ru-RU	batch	no	no	no	no	no
Spanish	es-ES	batch	no	batch	no	no	post-call
Spanish, US	es-US	batch, streaming	no	batch, streaming	batch, streaming	no	post-call, real-time
Swedish	sv-SE	batch	no	batch	no	no	no
Tamil	ta-IN	batch	no	no	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
Vietnamese	vi-VN	batch	no	batch	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

Supported programming languages

Amazon Transcribe supports the following AWS SDKs:

Batch transcriptions	Streaming transcriptions
.NET	.NET is not supported for streaming.
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.

Tip

You can find SDK code samples in these GitHub repositories:

• AWS Code Examples

• Amazon Transcribe Examples