Most meetings aren't in English, and most "supports 100 languages!" claims aren't a promise about your language — they're a list somewhere. Here's ours in full: QuickSpeak recognizes 36 languages, with auto-detect that picks per meeting, and every one of them transcribes on your machine — the same WebAssembly pipeline, the same privacy, the same unlimited free tier in every language. Below is the complete list, what auto-detect does, and the honest notes about accuracy that language pages usually skip.
The languages
| European | World |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian · Croatian · Czech · Danish · Dutch · English · Estonian · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hungarian · Italian · Latvian · Lithuanian · Maltese · Norwegian Bokmål · Norwegian Nynorsk · Polish · Portuguese · Romanian · Russian · Slovak · Slovenian · Spanish · Swedish · Ukrainian | Arabic · Chinese · Hebrew · Hindi · Japanese · Korean · Thai · Turkish · Vietnamese |
36 recognition languages as shipped in the extension. The app's interface itself is localized into 25 languages — the tool speaks your language, not just your meeting's.
How auto-detect works
The language selector offers two paths. Pin a language when the meeting will stay in it — best for a call you know is entirely German or entirely Japanese, because the model isn't spending effort deciding. Auto-detect lets QuickSpeak identify the language per meeting, which fits the reality of international work: this morning's call was Spanish, this afternoon's is English with a Munich client. Detection happens per meeting, not per sentence, so a call that switches languages mid-session should be pinned to its dominant language — that's the honest limit, and it applies to every tool in the category.
Accuracy, honestly
- Languages are not equal and no vendor's are. Recognition quality tracks how much training material each language had: major European languages perform strongly; smaller ones vary more. Any page promising identical accuracy across dozens of languages is marketing, not measurement.
- Audio quality outranks model choice, in every language — the accuracy factors are the same everywhere: mic distance, crosstalk, room echo.
- Test yours, free. The free tier has no minutes meter, so the right move is one real meeting in your language, compared against whatever you use today. Ten minutes of evidence beats any language list — including this one.
Why on-device matters more, not less, for non-English meetings
Speech in your own language is often your most sensitive speech — the contract call in German, the family matter in Hindi, the patient follow-up in Polish. The usual cloud transcription deal sends exactly that audio to servers whose language you may not read well enough to audit. QuickSpeak's pipeline doesn't change with the language: the model downloads once, recognition runs in your browser, and the transcript lands on your disk. It works offline in every one of the 36, which matters for the international traveler recording a call on hotel Wi-Fi or transcribing an in-person meeting on a plane.
FAQ
Which languages are supported?
All 36 listed above: 27 European languages (including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Ukrainian, and both Norwegian written forms) plus Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Can it handle a meeting that switches languages midway?
Auto-detect picks the language per meeting, not per sentence. For mixed-language calls, pin the dominant language — and know that mid-call switching is a hard problem across the whole category.
Does transcription cost more for other languages?
No. Recognition is unlimited and free in all 36 languages; Pro features are the same $12/month or $99/year regardless of language.
What about the app's own interface?
Localized into 25 languages — the menus, buttons, and prompts match your browser's language automatically.