In this guide, we describe how to set the language(s) in which your meetings will be transcribed in Meetgeek.
Default language settings
You can review the default settings for language by going to the Settings page, Meeting Assistant tab. The main language should be the one that is most frequently used in your online meetings. By default, it is set to English (United States). You can change it by selecting the appropriate language from the dropdown near the "Main language" section.
Note: Any change to the language settings will be applied to all your future meetings, overwriting any custom language settings you have previously set to a particular upcoming meeting. Past meetings which were already analyzed will not be affected. Live meetings which were started before the change will not be affected either.
Custom language settings
Sometimes an upcoming meeting could be held in a language different than the main language you have set in Meetgeek for your account. You can configure the same general language settings with meeting granularity from the Upcoming meetings page. The flag near each meeting indicates the main language for that specific meeting.
Note: A meeting that has alternative languages enabled will list the main language flag along with the alternative languages flags separated by arrows, as shown above.
Note: A greyed-out flag means you are not the host of the meeting, therefore you cannot change the meeting settings.
For the meetings hosted by you, the flag(s) will be highlighted when hovered. By clicking on the flag(s), a dialog will open up. From there you can change the language settings (and much more).
Supported languages
Below you can find the complete list of supported languages for transcription. A custom dictionary is a list of words or phrases provided ahead of time to help improve their recognition for the transcription. Adding a phrase to a phrase list increases its importance, thus making it more likely to be recognized. If available for your main language, the custom dictionary can be managed from the "Conversation Templates" page.
Language | Custom dictionary support |
Afrikaans (South Africa) | No |
Albanian (Albania) | No |
Amharic (Ethiopia) | No |
Arabic (Algeria) | No |
Arabic (Bahrain) | No |
Arabic (Egypt) | No |
Arabic (Iraq) | No |
Arabic (Israel) | No |
Arabic (Jordan) | No |
Arabic (Kuwait) | No |
Arabic (Lebanon) | No |
Arabic (Libya) | No |
Arabic (Morocco) | No |
Arabic (Oman) | No |
Arabic (Qatar) | No |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | No |
Arabic (Syria) | No |
Arabic (State of Palestine) | No |
Arabic (Tunisia) | No |
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | No |
Arabic (Yemen) | No |
Armenian (Armenia) | No |
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan) | No |
Basque (Spain) | No |
Bengali (Bangladesh) | No |
Bengali (India) | No |
Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | No |
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | No |
Burmese (Myanmar) | No |
Catalan (Spain) | No |
Chinese, Cantonese (Traditional Hong Kong) | No |
Chinese, Cantonese (Traditional Hong Kong) | No |
Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) | Yes |
Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified, China) | No |
Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional, Taiwan) | No |
Croatian (Croatia) | No |
Czech (Czech Republic) | No |
Danish (Denmark) | No |
Dutch (Belgium) | No |
Dutch (Netherlands) | No |
English (Australia) | Yes |
English (Canada) | Yes |
English (Ghana) | No |
English (Hong Kong) | No |
English (India) | Yes |
English (Ireland) | No |
English (Kenya) | No |
English (New Zealand) | No |
English (Nigeria) | No |
English (Pakistan) | No |
English (Philippines) | No |
English (Singapore) | No |
English (South Africa) | No |
English (Tanzania) | No |
English (United Kingdom) | Yes |
English (United States) | Yes |
Estonian (Estonia) | No |
Filipino (Philippines) | No |
Finnish (Finland) | No |
French (Belgium) | No |
French (Canada) | No |
French (France) | Yes |
French (Switzerland) | No |
Galician (Spain) | No |
Georgian (Georgia) | No |
German (Austria) | No |
German (Germany) | Yes |
German (Switzerland) | No |
Greek (Greece) | No |
Gujarati (India) | No |
Hebrew (Israel) | No |
Hebrew (Israel) | No |
Hindi (India) | No |
Hungarian (Hungary) | No |
Icelandic (Iceland) | No |
Indonesian (Indonesia) | No |
Irish (Ireland) | No |
Italian (Italy) | Yes |
Italian (Switzerland) | No |
Japanese (Japan) | Yes |
Javanese (Indonesia) | No |
Kannada (India) | No |
Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | No |
Khmer (Cambodia) | No |
Korean (South Korea) | No |
Lao (Laos) | No |
Latvian (Latvia) | No |
Lithuanian (Lithuania) | No |
Macedonian (North Macedonia) | No |
Malay (Malaysia) | No |
Malayalam (India) | No |
Maltese (Malta) | No |
Marathi (India) | No |
Mongolian (Mongolia) | No |
Nepali (Nepal) | No |
Norwegian (Bokmål, Norway) | No |
Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) | No |
Persian (Iran) | No |
Polish (Poland) | No |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Yes |
Portuguese (Portugal) | No |
Punjabi (Gurmukhi India) | No |
Romanian (Romania) | No |
Russian (Russia) | No |
Serbian (Serbia) | No |
Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | No |
Slovak (Slovakia) | No |
Slovenian (Slovenia) | No |
Spanish (Argentina) | No |
Spanish (Bolivia) | No |
Spanish (Chile) | No |
Spanish (Colombia) | No |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | No |
Spanish (Cuba) | No |
Spanish (Dominican Republic) | No |
Spanish (Ecuador) | No |
Spanish (El Salvador) | No |
Spanish (Equatorial Guinea) | No |
Spanish (Guatemala) | No |
Spanish (Honduras) | No |
Spanish (Mexico) | No |
Spanish (Nicaragua) | No |
Spanish (Panama) | No |
Spanish (Paraguay) | No |
Spanish (Peru) | No |
Spanish (Puerto Rico) | No |
Spanish (Spain) | Yes |
Spanish (United States) | No |
Spanish (Uruguay) | No |
Spanish (Venezuela) | No |
Sundanese (Indonesia) | No |
Swahili (Kenya) | No |
Swahili (Tanzania) | No |
Swedish (Sweden) | No |
Tamil (India) | No |
Tamil (Malaysia) | No |
Tamil (Singapore) | No |
Tamil (Sri Lanka) | No |
Telugu (India) | No |
Thai (Thailand) | No |
Turkish (Turkey) | No |
Ukrainian (Ukraine) | No |
Urdu (India) | No |
Urdu (Pakistan) | No |
Uzbek (Uzbekistan) | No |
Vietnamese (Vietnam) | No |
Zulu (South Africa) | No |