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Supported Languages

Vowen supports 99 languages via Whisper models and 25 European languages via Parakeet.

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Setting Your Language

Go to Settings > Language and select your language from the dropdown.

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Auto-Detect vs Fixed Language

For best accuracy, set a fixed language instead of relying on auto-detect. Auto-detect can occasionally switch to the wrong language mid-sentence.
Pro tip: Switching languages mid-sentence? Set your language to Auto-detect and pair it with Soniox, which handles real-time multilingual transcription (English to Hindi, Spanish to English, and so on) better than anything else we’ve tested. Soniox is a paid streaming model, but on our two-person team, $5 of credit has lasted more than six months of daily use.

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Translate to English

Translate to English is a Pro feature.
Enable Settings > Language > Translate to English to automatically translate non-English speech into English text. This uses Whisper’s built-in translation capability.

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Language-Specific Recommendations

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Parakeet Language Support

Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 supports these 25 languages with auto-detection: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.

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Tips for Non-English Transcription

  1. Use a multilingual model — avoid .en models which are English-only
  2. Set language explicitly — don’t rely on auto-detect for non-English
  3. Try cloud models — Groq Whisper Large v3 often gives better non-English results than local models
  4. Add vocabulary — Add names and technical terms specific to your language in Settings > Dictionary