Language support in Azure Video Indexer

This article provides a comprehensive list of language support by service features in Azure Video Indexer. For the list and definitions of all the features, see Overview.

General language support

This section describes language support in Azure Video Indexer.

• Transcription (source language of the video/audio file)

• Language identification (LID)

• Multi-language identification (MLID)

• Translation

  The following insights are translated, otherwise will remain in English:

  • Transcript
  • Keywords
  • Topics
  • Labels
  • Frame patterns (Only to Hebrew as of now)

• Language customization

Language	Code	Transcription	LID	MLID	Translation	Customization (Language model)
Afrikaans	af-ZA				✔
Arabic (Israel)	ar-IL	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Jordan)	ar-JO	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Kuwait)	ar-KW	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Lebanon)	ar-LB	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Oman)	ar-OM	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Palestinian Authority)	ar-PS	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Qatar)	ar-QA	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)	ar-SA	✔			✔	✔
Arabic (United Arab Emirates)	ar-AE	✔			✔	✔
Arabic Egypt	ar-EG	✔			✔	✔
Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain)	ar-BH	✔			✔	✔
Arabic Syrian Arab Republic	ar-SY	✔			✔	✔
Bangla	bn-BD				✔
Bosnian	bs-Latn				✔
Bulgarian	bg-BG				✔
Catalan	ca-ES				✔
Chinese (Cantonese Traditional)	zh-HK	✔		✔	✔	✔
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-Hans	✔			✔	✔
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-Hant				✔
Croatian	hr-HR				✔
Czech	cs-CZ	✔			✔	✔
Danish	da-DK	✔			✔	✔
Dutch	nl-NL	✔			✔	✔
English Australia	en-AU	✔			✔	✔
English United Kingdom	en-GB	✔			✔	✔
English United States	en-US	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Estonian	et-EE				✔
Fijian	en-FJ				✔
Filipino	fil-PH				✔
Finnish	fi-FI	✔			✔	✔
French	fr-FR	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
French (Canada)	fr-CA	✔			✔	✔
German	de-DE	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Greek	el-GR				✔
Haitian	fr-HT				✔
Hebrew	he-IL	✔			✔	✔
Hindi	hi-IN	✔			✔	✔
Hungarian	hu-HU				✔
Indonesian	id-ID				✔
Italian	it-IT	✔	✔		✔	✔
Japanese	ja-JP	✔	✔		✔	✔
Kiswahili	sw-KE				✔
Korean	ko-KR	✔			✔	✔
Latvian	lv-LV				✔
Lithuanian	lt-LT				✔
Malagasy	mg-MG				✔
Malay	ms-MY				✔
Maltese	mt-MT				✔
Norwegian	nb-NO	✔			✔	✔
Persian	fa-IR	✔			✔	✔
Polish	pl-PL	✔			✔	✔
Portuguese	pt-BR	✔	✔		✔	✔
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-PT	✔			✔	✔
Romanian	ro-RO				✔
Russian	ru-RU	✔	✔		✔	✔
Samoan	en-WS				✔
Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr-Cyrl-RS				✔
Serbian (Latin)	sr-Latn-RS				✔
Slovak	sk-SK				✔
Slovenian	sl-SI				✔
Spanish	es-ES	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Spanish (Mexico)	es-MX	✔			✔	✔
Swedish	sv-SE	✔			✔	✔
Tamil	ta-IN				✔
Thai	th-TH	✔			✔	✔
Tongan	to-TO				✔
Turkish	tr-TR	✔			✔	✔
Ukrainian	uk-UA				✔
Urdu	ur-PK				✔
Vietnamese	vi-VN				✔

Language support in frontend experiences

The following table describes language support in the Azure Video Indexer frontend experiences.

• portal - the portal column lists supported languages for the web portal
• widgets - the widgets column lists supported languages for translating the index file

Language	Code	Portal	Widgets
Afrikaans	af-ZA		✔
Arabic (Iraq)	ar-IQ
Arabic (Israel)	ar-IL
Arabic (Jordan)	ar-JO
Arabic (Kuwait)	ar-KW
Arabic (Lebanon)	ar-LB
Arabic (Oman)	ar-OM
Arabic (Palestinian Authority)	ar-PS
Arabic (Qatar)	ar-QA
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)	ar-SA
Arabic (United Arab Emirates)	ar-AE
Arabic Egypt	ar-EG		✔
Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain)	ar-BH
Arabic Syrian Arab Republic	ar-SY
Bangla	bn-BD		✔
Bosnian	bs-Latn		✔
Bulgarian	bg-BG		✔
Catalan	ca-ES		✔
Chinese (Cantonese Traditional)	zh-HK		✔
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-Hans	✔	✔
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-Hant		✔
Croatian	hr-HR
Czech	cs-CZ	✔	✔
Danish	da-DK		✔
Dutch	nl-NL	✔	✔
English Australia	en-AU		✔
English United Kingdom	en-GB		✔
English United States	en-US	✔	✔
Estonian	et-EE		✔
Fijian	en-FJ		✔
Filipino	fil-PH		✔
Finnish	fi-FI		✔
French	fr-FR		✔
French (Canada)	fr-CA	✔	✔
German	de-DE	✔
Greek	el-GR		✔
Haitian	fr-HT		✔
Hebrew	he-IL		✔
Hindi	hi-IN	✔	✔
Hungarian	hu-HU	✔	✔
Indonesian	id-ID
Italian	it-IT		✔
Japanese	ja-JP	✔	✔
Kiswahili	sw-KE	✔	✔
Korean	ko-KR	✔	✔
Latvian	lv-LV		✔
Lithuanian	lt-LT		✔
Malagasy	mg-MG		✔
Malay	ms-MY		✔
Maltese	mt-MT
Norwegian	nb-NO		✔
Persian	fa-IR
Polish	pl-PL	✔	✔
Portuguese	pt-BR	✔	✔
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-PT		✔
Romanian	ro-RO		✔
Russian	ru-RU	✔	✔
Samoan	en-WS
Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr-Cyrl-RS		✔
Serbian (Latin)	sr-Latn-RS
Slovak	sk-SK		✔
Slovenian	sl-SI		✔
Spanish	es-ES	✔	✔
Spanish (Mexico)	es-MX		✔
Swedish	sv-SE	✔	✔
Tamil	ta-IN		✔
Thai	th-TH		✔
Tongan	to-TO		✔
Turkish	tr-TR	✔	✔
Ukrainian	uk-UA		✔
Urdu	ur-PK		✔
Vietnamese	vi-VN		✔

Next steps

Overview