languages.rst

Languages

VoiceBase supports the following languages and dialects.

Feature Support by Language:

Language	Code	Transcription	Callbacks	NumFormatting	Keywords&Topics	Predictions	PCI	VoiceFeatures	ConversationMet	SentimentByTurn	VerbNoun
English US	en-US	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
English UK	en-UK	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
English AU	en-AU	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
French	fr-FR	√	√	√	√
German	de-DE	√	√	√
Italian	it-IT	√	√	√
Portuguese Brazil	pt-BR	√	√	√
Spanish LatinAm	es-LA	√	√	√	√	√	√	√		√	√
Spanish Spain	es-ES	√	√	√	√	√	√	√		√	√
Spanish US	es-US	√	√	√	√	√	√	√		√	√
Spanish Mexico	es-MX	√	√	√	√	√	√	√		√	√

Note: en-UK and en-AU use the en-US functions for Keywords, Topics, Number Formatting and PCI.

Configuring Language Support

Use the language configuration parameter to set the language. Omitting the parameter defaults the language to U.S. English (en-US).

For example, to transcribe a recording in Australian English:

{
  "speechModel" : {
    "language" : "en-AU"
  }
}

• language : The language code. Refer to the table above.

Disabling Semantic Keywords and Topics

Semantic keywords and topics are not currently supported with German, Italian, or Portuguese, please disable the feature in your configuration for these languages.

{
  "knowledge": {
    "enableDiscovery" : false
}

Examples

** Note: Export your api TOKEN prior to running any of the following examples.

export TOKEN='Your Api Token'

U.S. English for Voicemail

curl https://apis.voicebase.com/v3/media \
    --form media=@recording.mp3 \
    --form configuration='{
      "speechModel" : {
        "language" : "en-US"
        "extensions" : [ "voicemail" ]
      }
    }' \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}"

U.K. English

curl https://apis.voicebase.com/v3/media \
    --form media=@recording.mp3 \
    --form configuration='{
     "speechModel" : {
        "language" : "en-UK"
      }
    }' \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}"

Europa speech engine

You may want to try our specialized speech engine, Europa for variants of English such as Singapore, Indian, UK, or Australian English. Europa also supports European Spanish and other variants of Spanish.

More Language Options

VoiceBase has the capability to add languages per customer requests. Please talk to sales if you have a use case requiring any of the following languages:

Arabic * Bulgarian * Catalan * Croatian * Czech * Danish * Dutch * Finnish * Greek * Hindi * Hungarian * Japanese * Korean * Latvian * Lithuanian * Malay * Mandarin * Norwegian * Polish * Romanian * Russian * Slovak * Slovenian * Swedish * Turkish.