Supported Languages - Captionator

Whisper Engine

99 Languages

Recommended for most users. The multi-language support in Whisper is far superior to Siri. Whisper runs entirely on your Mac and provides excellent accuracy across all supported languages.

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Armenian

Assamese

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bosnian

Breton

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Haitian Creole

Hausa

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kannada

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lingala

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Macedonian

Malagasy

Malay

Malayalam

Maltese

Maori

Marathi

Mongolian

Myanmar

Nepali

Norwegian

Nynorsk

Occitan

Pashto

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Romanian

Russian

Sanskrit

Serbian

Shona

Sindhi

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

Somali

Spanish

Sundanese

Swahili

Swedish

Tagalog

Tajik

Tamil

Tatar

Telugu

Thai

Tibetan

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Urdu

Uzbek

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish

Yoruba

Siri Engine

48 Locales

Fast, on-device transcription using Apple's built-in speech recognition. Note: Some languages may require cloud processing, which limits transcription to 60 seconds. For unlimited transcription, use the Whisper engine.

Arabic

Cantonese

Catalan

Chinese (Mandarin)

Chinese (Taiwan)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch (Belgium)

Dutch (Netherlands)

English (Australia)

English (Canada)

English (India)

English (Ireland)

English (New Zealand)

English (Singapore)

English (South Africa)

English (UK)

English (US)

Finnish

French (Belgium)

French (Canada)

French (France)

French (Switzerland)

German (Austria)

German (Germany)

German (Switzerland)