# November 7, 2025

## Expanded Language Detection: Now Supports 35 Languages for Pre-Recorded Audio

Language Detection for pre-recorded (batch) audio now supports 35 languages (previously 16), allowing you to automatically detect and transcribe a much broader array of languages with one request. Enable broader coverage by setting `detect_language=true` in your API call.

**Supported languages:**

- Bulgarian (`bg`)
- Catalan (`ca`)
- Czech (`cs`)
- Danish (`da`)
- German (`de`)
- German (Switzerland) (`de-CH`)
- Greek (`el`)
- English (`en`)
- Spanish (`es`)
- Estonian (`et`)
- Finnish (`fi`)
- French (`fr`)
- Hindi (`hi`)
- Hungarian (`hu`)
- Indonesian (`id`)
- Italian (`it`)
- Japanese (`ja`)
- Korean (`ko`)
- Lithuanian (`lt`)
- Latvian (`lv`)
- Malay (`ms`)
- Dutch (`nl`)
- Flemish (`nl-BE`)
- Norwegian (`no`)
- Polish (`pl`)
- Portuguese (`pt`)
- Romanian (`ro`)
- Russian (`ru`)
- Slovak (`sk`)
- Swedish (`sv`)
- Thai (`th`)
- Turkish (`tr`)
- Ukrainian (`uk`)
- Vietnamese (`vi`)
- Chinese (`zh`)

For the full list and up-to-date documentation, see the [Language Detection documentation](/guides/models-and-languages-language-detection).

## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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