model language capabilties
what are the languages it can transcribe?
Hi @peteparker456 👋
The AI model can transcribe audio in the following languages (as listed in the model files "https://huggingface.co/Xenova/whisper-small/blob/main/generation_config.json" , lines 63 to 161):
Supported Languages:
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Tibetan, Breton, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Haitian Creole, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Luxembourgish, Lingala, Lao, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malagasy, Māori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, Occitan, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Turkmen, Tagalog, Turkish, Tatar, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Yoruba, and Chinese.
(This corresponds to the lang_to_id mapping inside the model configuration.)
ℹ️ I’m also just a user of the AI model — this list is directly based on what’s defined in the model’s internal files.