Check supported speech languages
Use the following language abbreviations when selecting a language for speech recognition in your IVR API request.
| Language | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans (South Africa) | af-ZA |
| Albanian (Albania) | sq-AL |
| Amharic (Ethiopia) | am-ET |
| Arabic (Algeria) | ar-DZ |
| Arabic (Bahrain) | ar-BH |
| Arabic (Egypt) | ar-EG |
| Arabic (Iraq) | ar-IQ |
| Arabic (Israel) | ar-IL |
| Arabic (Jordan) | ar-JO |
| Arabic (Kuwait) | ar-KW |
| Arabic (Lebanon) | ar-LB |
| Arabic (Libya) | ar-LY |
| Arabic (Morocco) | ar-MA |
| Arabic (Oman) | ar-OM |
| Arabic (Qatar) | ar-QA |
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA |
| Arabic (State of Palestine) | ar-PS |
| Arabic (Syria) | ar-SY |
| Arabic (Tunisia) | ar-TN |
| Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | ar-AE |
| Arabic (Yemen) | ar-YE |
| Armenian (Armenia) | hy-AM |
| Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan) | az-AZ |
| Basque (Spain) | eu-ES |
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | bn-BD |
| Bengali (India) | bn-IN |
| Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | bs-BA |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg-BG |
| Burmese (Myanmar) | my-MM |
| Catalan (Spain) | ca-ES |
| Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) | zh-HK |
| Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) | zh-CN |
| Chinese (Mandarin, Taiwan) | zh-TW |
| Croatian (Croatia) | hr-HR |
| Czech (Czech Republic) | cs-CZ |
| Danish (Denmark) | da-DK |
| Dutch (Belgium) | nl-BE |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL |
| English (Australia) | en-AU |
| English (Canada) | en-CA |
| English (Ghana) | en-GH |
| English (Great Britain) | en-GB |
| English (Hong Kong) | en-HK |
| English (India) | en-IN |
| English (Ireland) | en-IE |
| English (Kenya) | en-KE |
| English (New Zealand) | en-NZ |
| English (Nigeria) | en-NG |
| English (Pakistan) | en-PK |
| English (Philippines) | en-PH |
| English (Singapore) | en-SG |
| English (South Africa) | en-ZA |
| English (Tanzania) | en-TZ |
| English (US) | en-US |
| Estonian (Estonia) | et-EE |
| Filipino (Philippines) | fil-pH |
| Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI |
| French (Belgium) | fr-BE |
| French (Canada) | fr-CA |
| French (France) | fr-FR |
| French (Switzerland) | fr-CH |
| Galician (Spain) | gl-ES |
| Georgian (Georgia) | ka-GE |
| German (Austria) | de-AT |
| German (Germany) | de-DE |
| German (Switzerland) | de-CH |
| Greek (Greece) | el-GR |
| Gujarati (India) | gu-IN |
| Hebrew (Israel) | he-IL |
| Hindi (India) | hi-IN |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU |
| Icelandic (Iceland) | is-IS |
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | id-ID |
| Irish (Ireland) | ga-IE |
| Italian (Italy) | it-IT |
| Italian (Switzerland) | it-CH |
| Japanese (Japan) | ja-JP |
| Javanese (Indonesia) | jv-ID |
| Kannada (India) | kn-IN |
| Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | kk-KZ |
| Khmer (Cambodia) | km-KH |
| Korean (South Korea) | ko-KR |
| Lao (Laos) | lo-LA |
| Latvian (Latvia) | lv-LV |
| Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lt-LT |
| Macedonian (North Macedonia) | mk-MK |
| Malay (Malaysia) | ms-MY |
| Malayalam (India) | ml-IN |
| Maltese (Malta) | mt-MT |
| Marathi (India) | mr-IN |
| Mongolian (Mongolia) | mn-MN |
| Nepali (Nepal) | ne-NP |
| Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) | no-NO |
| Persian (Iran) | fa-IR |
| Polish (Poland) | pl-PL |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT |
| Punjabi (Gurmukhi India) | pa-Guru-IN |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-RU |
| Serbian (Serbia) | sr-RS |
| Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | si-LK |
| Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK |
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl-SI |
| Spanish (Argentina) | es-AR |
| Spanish (Bolivia) | es-BO |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-CL |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-CO |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | es-CR |
| Spanish (Cuba) | es-CU |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | es-DO |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | es-EC |
| Spanish (El Salvador) | es-SV |
| Spanish (Equatorial Guinea) | es-GQ |
| Spanish (Guatemala) | es-GT |
| Spanish (Honduras) | es-HN |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX |
| Spanish (Nicaragua) | es-NI |
| Spanish (Panama) | es-PA |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | es-PY |
| Spanish (Peru) | es-PE |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-PR |
| Spanish (Spain) | es-ES |
| Spanish (USA) | es-US |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | es-UY |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | es-VE |
| Sundanese (Indonesia) | su-ID |
| Swahili (Kenya) | sw-KE |
| Swahili (Tanzania) | sw-TZ |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE |
| Tamil (India) | ta-IN |
| Tamil (Malaysia) | ta-MY |
| Tamil (Singapore) | ta-SG |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | ta-LK |
| Telugu (India) | te-IN |
| Thai (Thailand) | th-TH |
| Turkish (Turkey) | tr-TR |
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | uk-UA |
| Urdu (India) | ur-IN |
| Urdu (Pakistan) | ur-PK |
| Uzbek (Uzbekistan) | uz-UZ |
| Vietnamese (Vietnam) | vi-VN |
| Zulu (South Africa) | zu-ZA |
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