Language support

Speech-to-text language support matrix

104 languages are explicitly listed by at least one of the 26 reviewed local speech-to-text models. English is listed by all 26; 30 languages are listed by ten or more models, while 4 appear in only one model's official list. Find your language below to see exactly which models to test first.

Language guides

Ranked picks by setup for the most requested languages:

How to read this matrix

Listed means the model's official source explicitly names the language. It does not guarantee equal accuracy across languages — always test with your own audio.
Adaptation-ready (NVIDIA Nemotron) means the language needs fine-tuning before full transcription.
Omnilingual ASR documents more than 1,600 language-script codes; only 18 are enumerated in our record. If your language is missing, check Meta's full list ↗.
48 languages are listed only by the Whisper family. For those, Whisper (or a Whisper-based runtime such as faster-whisper) is currently the main reviewed local option.

Which models list each language

Languages and the reviewed models that list them (104 languages)
Language	Models	Listed by	Notes
English `en`	26	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Distil-Whisper large-v3, Moonshine Tiny Streaming (English), Moonshine Medium Streaming (English), Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle, Jais-ASR
French `fr`	22	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle, Jais-ASR
Italian `it`	21	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle, Jais-ASR
Portuguese `pt`	21	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux
Spanish `es`	21	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle, Jais-ASR
German `de`	20	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle
Japanese `ja`	17	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B
Dutch `nl`	16	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Parakeet Redux, Whistle
Korean `ko`	16	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B	Same model list as Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese `zh`	16	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B
Polish `pl`	16	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux, Whistle
Russian `ru`	16	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux
Arabic `ar`	14	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Jais-ASR
Czech `cs`	14	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Danish `da`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Same model list as Swedish
Finnish `fi`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Same model list as Swedish
Greek `el`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Hungarian `hu`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Same model list as Swedish
Romanian `ro`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Same model list as Swedish
Swedish `sv`	13	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Croatian `hr`	12	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Hindi `hi`	12	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602
Slovak `sk`	12	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Vietnamese `vi`	12	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512
Bulgarian `bg`	11	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Estonian `et`	11	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux
Slovenian `sl`	11	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Ukrainian `uk`	11	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Parakeet Redux
Latvian `lv`	10	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Lithuanian `lt`	10	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Filipino `fil`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512	Same model list as Indonesian
Indonesian `id`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512
Malay `ms`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512	Same model list as Indonesian
Maltese `mt`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Parakeet Redux	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Thai `th`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B · Same model list as Indonesian
Turkish `tr`	9	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B
Cantonese `yue`	8	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512
Persian `fa`	8	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, VibeVoice-ASR 7B
Macedonian `mk`	7	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B
Afrikaans `af`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Armenian `hy`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Catalan `ca`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Hebrew `he`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Icelandic `is`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Javanese `jv`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Mongolian `mn`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Nepali `ne`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Norwegian `no`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Serbian `sr`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Swahili `sw`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Urdu `ur`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Yiddish `yi`	6	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo, VibeVoice-ASR 7B	Same model list as Hebrew
Albanian `sq`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Amharic `am`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Assamese `as`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Azerbaijani `az`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Bangla `bn`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Bashkir `ba`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Basque `eu`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Belarusian `be`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Bosnian `bs`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Breton `br`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Burmese `my`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Faroese `fo`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Galician `gl`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Georgian `ka`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Gujarati `gu`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Haitian Creole `ht`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Hausa `ha`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Hawaiian `haw`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Kannada `kn`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Kazakh `kk`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Khmer `km`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Lao `lo`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Latin `la`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Lingala `ln`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Luxembourgish `lb`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Malagasy `mg`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Malayalam `ml`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Māori `mi`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Marathi `mr`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Norwegian Nynorsk `nn`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Adaptation-ready: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B
Occitan `oc`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Pashto `ps`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Punjabi `pa`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Sanskrit `sa`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Shona `sn`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Sindhi `sd`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Sinhala `si`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Somali `so`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Sundanese `su`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Tajik `tg`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Tamil `ta`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Tatar `tt`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Telugu `te`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Tibetan `bo`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Turkmen `tk`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Uzbek `uz`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Welsh `cy`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Yoruba `yo`	5	Whisper tiny, Whisper base, Whisper small, Whisper medium, Whisper turbo	Whisper family only
Afar `aa`	1	VibeVoice-ASR 7B
Irish `ga`	1	Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512
Kalaallisut `kl`	1	VibeVoice-ASR 7B
Norwegian Bokmål `nb`	1	Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B

Language coverage by model

23 of the 26 reviewed models are multilingual; 3 are English-only. The count is the number of languages enumerated in our reviewed record.

Number of explicitly listed languages per reviewed model
Model	Listed languages	Official description	Streaming
Whisper base	100	99+ listed languages	Via runtime
Whisper medium	100	99+ listed languages	Via runtime
Whisper small	100	99+ listed languages	Via runtime
Whisper tiny	100	99+ listed languages	Via runtime
Whisper turbo	100	99+ listed languages	Via runtime
VibeVoice-ASR 7B	51	51 listed languages	No
Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512	31	31 listed languages	Via runtime
Qwen3-ASR 0.6B	30	30 languages + 22 Chinese dialects	Via runtime
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B	30	30 languages + 22 Chinese dialects	Via runtime
Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B	28	40 language-locales in tiers	Native
Orukeet	25	25 European languages	No
Parakeet Redux	25	25 European languages	No
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3	25	25 European languages	Via runtime
Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M	18	1,600+ language codes	No
Cohere Transcribe 03-2026	14	14 listed languages	No
Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602	13	13 listed languages	Native
VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B	10	10 listed languages	Native
VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B	10	10 listed languages	Native
Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC	7	7 listed languages	No
VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet	7	7 listed languages	Via runtime
Whistle	7	7 listed languages	Native
Granite Speech 5.0 2B	6	6 listed languages	No
Jais-ASR	5	Arabic (MSA + 19 dialects), plus English, French, Spanish, Italian	No
Distil-Whisper large-v3	1	English	Via runtime
Moonshine Medium Streaming (English)	1	English	Native
Moonshine Tiny Streaming (English)	1	English	Native

Choosing between several candidates

When your language is listed by several models, decide by workload rather than by the count alone: use the matcher to apply hardware, latency and diarization constraints, read the multilingual guide for trade-offs, then measure your finalists with the WER calculator on a representative recording.

Generated from the reviewed model database (latest review November 3, 2026). Language names follow standard ISO 639 codes; Whisper's jw is shown as Javanese and tl as Filipino.