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Language support in Azure Video Indexer

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This article provides a comprehensive list of language support by service features in Azure Video Indexer. For the list and definitions of all the features, see Overview.

Some languages are supported only through the API (see Get Supported Languages) and not through the Video Indexer website or widgets. To make sure a language is supported for search, transcription, or translation by the Azure Video Indexer website and widgets, see the front end language support table further below.

API language support

The API returns a list of supported languages with the following values:

"name": "Language",
"languageCode": "Code",
"isRightToLeft": true/false,
"isSourceLanguage": true/false,
"isAutoDetect": true/false

Some notes for the above values are:

  • Supported source language:

    If isSourceLanguage is false, the language is supported for translation only.
    If isSourceLanguage is true, the language is supported as source for transcription, translation, and search.

  • Language identification (auto detection):

    If isAutoDetect set to true, the language is supported for language identification (LID) and multi-language identification (MLID).

  • The following insights are translated, otherwise will remain in English:

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Language Code Supported source language Language identification Customization (language model)
Afrikaans af-ZA
Arabic (Israel) ar-IL ✔ ✔
Arabic (Iraq) ar-IQ ✔ ✔
Arabic (Jordan) ar-JO ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic (Kuwait) ar-KW ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic (Lebanon) ar-LB ✔ ✔
Arabic (Oman) ar-OM ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic (Paestinian Authority) ar-PS ✔ ✔
Arabic (Qatar) ar-QA ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar-SA ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) ar-AE ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic Egypt ar-EG ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain) ar-BH ✔ ✔ ✔
Arabic Syrian Arab Republic ar-SY ✔ ✔ ✔
Armenian hy-AM ✔
Bangla bn-BD
Bosnian bs-Latn
Bulgarian bg-BG ✔ ✔
Catalan ca-ES ✔ ✔
Chinese (Cantonese Traditional) zh-HK ✔ ✔ ✔
Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans ✔ ✔ ✔
Chinese (Simplified) zh-CK ✔ ✔ ✔
Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant
Croatian hr-HR ✔ ✔
Czech cs-CZ ✔ ✔ ✔
Danish da-DK ✔ ✔ ✔
Dutch nl-NL ✔ ✔ ✔
English Australia en-AU ✔ ✔ ✔
English United Kingdom en-GB ✔ ✔ ✔
English United States en-US ✔ ✔ ✔
Estonian et-EE ✔ ✔
Fijian en-FJ
Filipino fil-PH
Finnish fi-FI ✔ ✔ ✔
French fr-FR ✔ ✔ ✔
French (Canada) fr-CA ✔ ✔ ✔
German de-DE ✔ ✔ ✔
Greek el-GR ✔ ✔
Gujarati gu-IN ✔ ✔
Haitian fr-HT
Hebrew he-IL ✔ ✔ ✔
Hindi hi-IN ✔ ✔ ✔
Hungarian hu-HU ✔
Icelandic is-IS ✔
Indonesian id-ID
Irish ga-IE ✔ ✔
Italian it-IT ✔ ✔ ✔
Japanese ja-JP ✔ ✔ ✔
Kannada kn-IN ✔ ✔
Kiswahili sw-KE
Korean ko-KR ✔ ✔ ✔
Latvian lv-LV ✔ ✔
Lithuanian lt-LT
Malagasy mg-MG
Malay ms-MY ✔
Malayalam ml-IN ✔ ✔
Maltese mt-MT
Norwegian nb-NO ✔ ✔ ✔
Persian fa-IR ✔ ✔
Polish pl-PL ✔ ✔ ✔
Portuguese pt-BR ✔ ✔ ✔
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT ✔ ✔ ✔
Romanian ro-RO ✔ ✔
Russian ru-RU ✔ ✔ ✔
Samoan en-WS
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl-RS
Serbian (Latin) sr-Latn-RS
Slovak sk-SK ✔ ✔
Slovenian sl-SI ✔ ✔
Spanish es-ES ✔ ✔ ✔
Spanish (Mexico) es-MX ✔ ✔ ✔
Swedish sv-SE ✔ ✔ ✔
Tamil ta-IN ✔ ✔
Telugu te-IN ✔ ✔
Thai th-TH ✔ ✔ ✔
Tongan to-TO
Turkish tr-TR ✔ ✔ ✔
Ukrainian uk-UA ✔ ✔
Urdu ur-PK
Vietnamese vi-VN ✔ ✔

Default languages supported by Language identification (LID): German (de-DE) , English United States (en-US) , Spanish (es-ES) , French (fr-FR), Italian (it-IT) , Japanese (ja-JP), Portuguese (pt-BR), Russian (ru-RU), Chinese (Simplified) (zh-Hans).

Default languages supported by Multi-language identification (MLID): German (de-DE) , English United States (en-US) , Spanish (es-ES) , French (fr-FR).

Change default languages supported by LID and MLID

When uploading a video through an API, you can specify to use other supported languages (listed in the table above) for LID and MLID by passing the customLanguages parameter. The customLanguages parameter allows up to 10 languages to be identified by LID or MLID.

Note

Language identification (LID) and Multi-language identification (MLID) compares speech at the language level, such as English and German. Do not include multiple locales of the same language in the custom languages list.

Language support in front end experiences

The following table describes language support in the Azure Video Indexer front end experiences.

Language Code Website Widgets
Afrikaans af-ZA ✔
Arabic (Iraq) ar-IQ
Arabic (Israel) ar-IL
Arabic (Jordan) ar-JO
Arabic (Kuwait) ar-KW
Arabic (Lebanon) ar-LB
Arabic (Oman) ar-OM
Arabic (Palestinian Authority) ar-PS
Arabic (Qatar) ar-QA
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar-SA
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) ar-AE
Arabic Egypt ar-EG ✔
Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain) ar-BH
Arabic Syrian Arab Republic ar-SY
Bangla bn-BD ✔
Bosnian bs-Latn ✔
Bulgarian bg-BG ✔
Catalan ca-ES ✔
Chinese (Cantonese Traditional) zh-HK ✔
Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans ✔ ✔
Chinese (Simplified) zh-CK ✔ ✔
Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant ✔
Croatian hr-HR
Czech cs-CZ ✔ ✔
Danish da-DK ✔
Dutch nl-NL ✔ ✔
English Australia en-AU ✔
English United Kingdom en-GB ✔
English United States en-US ✔ ✔
Estonian et-EE ✔
Fijian en-FJ ✔
Filipino fil-PH ✔
Finnish fi-FI ✔
French fr-FR ✔
French (Canada) fr-CA ✔ ✔
German de-DE ✔
Greek el-GR ✔
Haitian fr-HT ✔
Hebrew he-IL ✔
Hindi hi-IN ✔ ✔
Hungarian hu-HU ✔ ✔
Indonesian id-ID
Italian it-IT ✔
Japanese ja-JP ✔ ✔
Kiswahili sw-KE ✔ ✔
Korean ko-KR ✔ ✔
Latvian lv-LV ✔
Lithuanian lt-LT ✔
Malagasy mg-MG ✔
Malay ms-MY ✔
Maltese mt-MT
Norwegian nb-NO ✔
Persian fa-IR
Polish pl-PL ✔ ✔
Portuguese pt-BR ✔ ✔
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT ✔
Romanian ro-RO ✔
Russian ru-RU ✔ ✔
Samoan en-WS
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl-RS ✔
Serbian (Latin) sr-Latn-RS
Slovak sk-SK ✔
Slovenian sl-SI ✔
Spanish es-ES ✔ ✔
Spanish (Mexico) es-MX ✔
Swedish sv-SE ✔ ✔
Tamil ta-IN ✔
Thai th-TH ✔
Tongan to-TO ✔
Turkish tr-TR ✔ ✔
Ukrainian uk-UA ✔ ✔
Urdu ur-PK ✔
Vietnamese vi-VN ✔ ✔

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