> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://learn.cleftnotes.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Languages

> Transcription language options and what's officially supported

Cleft can attempt transcription in 60+ languages. The 58 listed below have good accuracy based on Whisper benchmarks — US English gets the best results. Everything else uses the same model but hasn't been officially tested.

## Changing Your Language

Go to **Settings > General** and use the **Transcription Language** picker. Choose a specific language or leave it on **Auto-Detect**.

<Tip>
  See the full list of [Whisper-supported languages](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text/supported-languages/#supported-languages) on OpenAI's docs.
</Tip>

## Supported Languages

Based on [Whisper benchmarks](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text/supported-languages/#supported-languages), these 57 languages score below 50% word error rate (WER) — the standard threshold for usable speech-to-text accuracy:

* Afrikaans
* Arabic
* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Belarusian
* Bosnian
* Bulgarian
* Catalan
* Chinese
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* Estonian
* Finnish
* French
* Galician
* German
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Hungarian
* Icelandic
* Indonesian
* Italian
* Japanese
* Kannada
* Kazakh
* Korean
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Macedonian
* Malay
* Marathi
* Maori
* Nepali
* Norwegian
* Persian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Russian
* Serbian
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Spanish
* Swahili
* Swedish
* Tagalog
* Tamil
* Thai
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Urdu
* Vietnamese
* Welsh

Languages not listed above may still return results, but you might see garbled output or mixed-language text.

Want official support for another language? Let us know at [support@cleftnotes.com](mailto:support@cleftnotes.com).