Multi-language support
Captionator includes multi-language support using both Whisper and Siri. The multi-language support in Whisper is far superior to the language support in Siri. The user interface is English only, but it is able to produce captions in several other languages supported by the engine. The list below includes the various languages, and their testing states. If you test out captionator with a new language, please let us know about it, as others would love to hear if about it!
If you see a “Cloud” next to your language while using the Siri Engine, that means the language pack is not installed, and on-device transcriptions are not available. You can install them from System Preferences -> Language & Regions -> Translation Languages.
Whisper Languages
| Code | Language |
|---|---|
| af | Afrikaans |
| sq | Albanian |
| am | Amharic |
| ar | Arabic |
| hy | Armenian |
| as | Assamese |
| az | Azerbaijani |
| ba | Bashkir |
| eu | Basque |
| be | Belarusian |
| bn | Bengali |
| bs | Bosnian |
| br | Breton |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| ca | Catalan |
| zh | Chinese |
| hr | Croatian |
| cs | Czech |
| da | Danish |
| nl | Dutch |
| en | English |
| et | Estonian |
| fo | Faroese |
| fi | Finnish |
| fr | French |
| gl | Galician |
| ka | Georgian |
| de | German |
| el | Greek |
| gu | Gujarati |
| ht | Haitian Creole |
| ha | Hausa |
| haw | Hawaiian |
| he | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| hu | Hungarian |
| is | Icelandic |
| id | Indonesian |
| it | Italian |
| ja | Japanese |
| jw | Javanese |
| kn | Kannada |
| kk | Kazakh |
| km | Khmer |
| ko | Korean |
| lo | Lao |
| la | Latin |
| lv | Latvian |
| ln | Lingala |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| lb | Luxembourgish |
| mk | Macedonian |
| mg | Malagasy |
| ms | Malay |
| ml | Malayalam |
| mt | Maltese |
| mi | Maori |
| mr | Marathi |
| mn | Mongolian |
| my | Myanmar |
| ne | Nepali |
| no | Norwegian |
| nn | Nynorsk |
| oc | Occitan |
| ps | Pashto |
| fa | Persian |
| pl | Polish |
| pt | Portuguese |
| pa | Punjabi |
| ro | Romanian |
| ru | Russian |
| sa | Sanskrit |
| sr | Serbian |
| sn | Shona |
| sd | Sindhi |
| si | Sinhala |
| sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian |
| so | Somali |
| es | Spanish |
| su | Sundanese |
| sw | Swahili |
| sv | Swedish |
| tl | Tagalog |
| tg | Tajik |
| ta | Tamil |
| tt | Tatar |
| te | Telugu |
| th | Thai |
| bo | Tibetan |
| tr | Turkish |
| tk | Turkmen |
| uk | Ukrainian |
| ur | Urdu |
| uz | Uzbek |
| vi | Vietnamese |
| cy | Welsh |
| yi | Yiddish |
| yo | Yoruba |
Siri Languages
| Language | Code | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA | Experimental |
| Cantonese (China mainland) | yue-CN | Experimental |
| Catalan (Spain) | ca-ES | Experimental |
| Chinese (China mainland) | zh-CN | Experimental |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh-HK | Experimental |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW | Experimental |
| Croatian (Croatia) | hr-HR | Experimental |
| Czech (Czechia) | cs-CZ | Experimental |
| Danish (Denmark) | da-DK | Experimental |
| Dutch (Belgium) | nl-BE | Experimental |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL | Experimental |
| English (Australia) | en-AU | Experimental |
| English (Canada) | en-CA | Tested |
| English (India) | en-IN | Experimental |
| English (Indonesia) | en-ID | Experimental |
| English (Ireland) | en-IE | Experimental |
| English (New Zealand) | en-NZ | Experimental |
| English (Philippines) | en-PH | Experimental |
| English (Saudi Arabia) | en-SA | Experimental |
| English (Singapore) | en-SG | Experimental |
| English (South Africa) | en-ZA | Experimental |
| English (United Arab Emirates) | en-AE | Experimental |
| English (United Kingdom) | en-GB | Experimental |
| English (United States) | en-US | Tested |
| Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI | Experimental |
| French (Belgium) | fr-BE | Experimental |
| French (Canada) | fr-CA | Experimental |
| French (France) | fr-FR | Experimental |
| French (Switzerland) | fr-CH | Experimental |
| German (Austria) | de-AT | Experimental |
| German (Germany) | de-DE | Experimental |
| German (Switzerland) | de-CH | Experimental |
| Greek (Greece) | el-GR | Experimental |
| Hebrew (Israel) | he-IL | Experimental |
| Hindi (India) | hi-IN | Experimental |
| Hindi (India TRANSLIT) | hi-IN-translit | Experimental |
| Hindi (Latin) | hi-Latn | Experimental |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU | Experimental |
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | id-ID | Experimental |
| Italian (Italy) | it-IT | Experimental |
| Italian (Switzerland) | it-CH | Experimental |
| Japanese (Japan) | ja-JP | Experimental |
| Korean (South Korea) | ko-KR | Experimental |
| Malay (Malaysia) | ms-MY | Experimental |
| Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) | nb-NO | Experimental |
| Polish (Poland) | pl-PL | 1 Working Report |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR | Experimental |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT | Experimental |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO | Experimental |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-RU | Experimental |
| Shanghainese (China mainland) | wuu-CN | Experimental |
| Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK | Experimental |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-CL | Experimental |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-CO | Experimental |
| Spanish (Latin America) | es-419 | Experimental |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX | Experimental |
| Spanish (Spain) | es-ES | Experimental |
| Spanish (United States) | es-US | Experimental |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE | Experimental |
| Thai (Thailand) | th-TH | Experimental |
| Turkish (Turkey) | tr-TR | Experimental |
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | uk-UA | Experimental |
| Vietnamese (Vietnam) | vi-VN | Experimental |