Free Multi-Language Transcription — 100+ Languages

Whisper supports 100+ languages including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Swahili, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Ukrainian, and many more.

Accuracy varies by language. High-resource languages (Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese) achieve accuracy close to English. Less-resourced languages may have lower accuracy, especially with accented speech or domain-specific vocabulary. Test with a short sample first to gauge quality for your specific language.

Whisper can handle code-switching to some degree, but accuracy is best when the audio is predominantly in one language. For meetings where participants speak different languages, we recommend noting timestamps and processing each language segment separately for the best results.

Yes. Whisper was trained on diverse audio including tonal languages and produces accurate transcripts in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Thai, and other tonal languages. The output uses the standard writing system for each language (simplified/traditional Chinese characters, Vietnamese with diacritics, etc.).

Yes. Whisper fully supports Arabic, Hebrew, Persian (Farsi), and Urdu. The transcript text is generated in the correct script, and exports properly encode RTL text. Your text editor or subtitle player handles the display direction.

Yes. By default, Whisper automatically detects the spoken language in the first 30 seconds of audio. For best accuracy — especially with short clips or uncommon languages — you can manually select the language before transcription. Auto-detection works reliably for the most commonly spoken languages.