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# Language support by provider
> Which Retell text-to-speech and speech recognition providers support each language, with codes accepted by the API and model-level restrictions.
Every language your agent uses must be supported by **both** a voice (text-to-speech) provider and a speech recognition (ASR) provider. This page lists, for each language, which providers cover it.
The dashboard's language picker is the live source of truth — it greys out combinations that aren't supported and updates as providers add coverage. Use these tables for planning; confirm the exact combination in the dashboard. See [Set language for your agent](/agent/language) and [Configure a multilingual agent](/agent/multilingual) for how selection works.
Codes are the values accepted by the API `language` field. Where a language has multiple locale variants (for example, US vs. British English), they share the same provider support.
## Text-to-speech (voice) support
A ✓ means the language is supported by **at least one** of that provider's voice models. Some providers gate certain languages to specific models — see [Model-level restrictions](#model-level-restrictions) below.
| Language | Code(s) | Platform | MiniMax | Fish Audio | ElevenLabs | Cartesia | OpenAI |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------- | :------: | :-----: | :--------: | :--------: | :------: | :----: |
| Afrikaans | `af-ZA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Arabic | `ar-SA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Armenian | `hy-AM` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Azerbaijani | `az-AZ` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Bosnian | `bs-BA` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Bulgarian | `bg-BG` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cantonese | `yue-CN` | ✓ | ✓ | | | | |
| Catalan | `ca-ES` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Chinese | `zh-CN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Croatian | `hr-HR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Czech | `cs-CZ` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Danish | `da-DK` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dutch | `nl-NL`, `nl-BE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| English | `en-US`, `en-IN`, `en-GB`, `en-AU`, `en-NZ` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filipino | `fil-PH` | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Finnish | `fi-FI` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French | `fr-FR`, `fr-CA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Galician | `gl-ES` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| German | `de-DE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Greek | `el-GR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hebrew | `he-IL` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hindi | `hi-IN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hungarian | `hu-HU` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Icelandic | `is-IS` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Indonesian | `id-ID` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Italian | `it-IT` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese | `ja-JP` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kannada | `kn-IN` | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kazakh | `kk-KZ` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Korean | `ko-KR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Latvian | `lv-LV` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Lithuanian | `lt-LT` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Macedonian | `mk-MK` | | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Malay | `ms-MY` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marathi | `mr-IN` | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nepali | `ne-NP` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Norwegian | `no-NO` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persian | `fa-IR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Polish | `pl-PL` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portuguese | `pt-PT`, `pt-BR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Romanian | `ro-RO` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Russian | `ru-RU` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Serbian | `sr-RS` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Slovak | `sk-SK` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slovenian | `sl-SI` | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Spanish | `es-ES`, `es-419` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swahili | `sw-KE` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Swedish | `sv-SE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tamil | `ta-IN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thai | `th-TH` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turkish | `tr-TR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ukrainian | `uk-UA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Urdu | `ur-IN` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| Vietnamese | `vi-VN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Welsh | `cy-GB` | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
**Platform voices** run on one or more of the other providers, but that routing is abstracted away — you don't pick a provider, and Retell handles fallback automatically on an outage. For language selection, every platform voice shares the single fixed support set shown in the **Platform** column. A voice you **clone as a platform voice** is cloned onto several providers at once for automatic fallback. See [Platform voices](/build/platform-voices).
### Model-level restrictions
Most providers support the same languages across all of their models. The exceptions:
**ElevenLabs**
| Model | Languages |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `eleven_v3` | All languages in the ElevenLabs column above |
| `eleven_flash_v2_5` | English, Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Vietnamese |
| `eleven_multilingual_v2` | Same as `eleven_flash_v2_5` above, **minus** Hungarian, Norwegian, and Vietnamese |
| `eleven_flash_v2` | English only |
**Fish Audio**
| Model | Languages |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `s2-pro`, `s2.1-pro` | All languages in the Fish Audio column above |
| `s1` | English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese |
**OpenAI** (`tts-1`, `gpt-4o-mini-tts`), **Cartesia** (`sonic-3`, `sonic-3-latest`, `sonic-3.5`), and **MiniMax** (`speech-02-turbo`, `speech-2.8-turbo`) support their full language set on every model.
## Speech recognition (ASR) support
A ✓ means the provider can transcribe that language. By default Retell auto-routes across providers based on your agent's languages and whether it's optimized for latency or accuracy. You can also pin a specific provider manually with a custom speech-to-text config, as long as it supports every language your agent uses. See [Speech recognition providers](/build/asr-providers).
| Language | Code(s) | Deepgram | Azure | Soniox | AssemblyAI |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------- | :------: | :---: | :----: | :--------: |
| Afrikaans | `af-ZA` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Arabic | `ar-SA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Armenian | `hy-AM` | | ✓ | | |
| Azerbaijani | `az-AZ` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bosnian | `bs-BA` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bulgarian | `bg-BG` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cantonese | `yue-CN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Catalan | `ca-ES` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chinese | `zh-CN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Croatian | `hr-HR` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Czech | `cs-CZ` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Danish | `da-DK` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dutch | `nl-NL`, `nl-BE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| English | `en-US`, `en-IN`, `en-GB`, `en-AU`, `en-NZ` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filipino | `fil-PH` | | ✓ | | |
| Finnish | `fi-FI` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French | `fr-FR`, `fr-CA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Galician | `gl-ES` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| German | `de-DE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Greek | `el-GR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Hebrew | `he-IL` | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hindi | `hi-IN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hungarian | `hu-HU` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Icelandic | `is-IS` | | ✓ | | |
| Indonesian | `id-ID` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Italian | `it-IT` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese | `ja-JP` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kannada | `kn-IN` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Kazakh | `kk-KZ` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Korean | `ko-KR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Latvian | `lv-LV` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Lithuanian | `lt-LT` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Macedonian | `mk-MK` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Malay | `ms-MY` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Marathi | `mr-IN` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nepali | `ne-NP` | | ✓ | | |
| Norwegian | `no-NO` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persian | `fa-IR` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Polish | `pl-PL` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Portuguese | `pt-PT`, `pt-BR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Romanian | `ro-RO` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Russian | `ru-RU` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Serbian | `sr-RS` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Slovak | `sk-SK` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Slovenian | `sl-SI` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Spanish | `es-ES`, `es-419` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swahili | `sw-KE` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Swedish | `sv-SE` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tamil | `ta-IN` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thai | `th-TH` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Turkish | `tr-TR` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ukrainian | `uk-UA` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Urdu | `ur-IN` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Vietnamese | `vi-VN` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Welsh | `cy-GB` | | ✓ | ✓ | |
* **Azure** covers every supported language and acts as the broad-coverage fallback.
* **AssemblyAI** supports code-switching across its listed languages.
* **Deepgram** and **Soniox** support any-to-any code-switching for multilingual agents across their supported languages; Azure is single-language only.
## Multilingual agents
For a multilingual agent, every selected language must be covered by a single voice and a single ASR provider that can handle the whole set together. If no single provider covers the combination, the dashboard blocks it. See [Configure a multilingual agent](/agent/multilingual) for accuracy trade-offs.