Note

Please see Azure Cognitive Services for Speech documentation for the latest supported speech solutions.

Language Support

The Microsoft Speech Platform SDK 11 provides support for 26 languages for both speech recognition and speech synthesis (TTS or text-to-speech). You must download a Runtime Language for each language that want to program against in your applications. A Runtime Language includes the language model, acoustic model, and other data necessary to provision a speech engine to perform speech synthesis or speech recognition in a particular language. There are separate Runtime Languages for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The version of the Runtime Languages that you use for development, for example version 11.0, must match the version of the Speech Platform Runtime that you installed.

Use the following link to download Runtime Languages for version 11 of the Speech Platform Runtime.

Supported Languages

You can download Runtime Languages for use with the Speech Platform SDK 11 that support the following languages.

Language-Country

Language-Country Code

Hexadecimal Value

Catalan - Spain

ca-ES

0x0403

Danish - Denmark

da-DK

0x0406

German - Germany

de-DE

0x0C07

English - Australia

en-AU

0x0C09

English - Canada

en-CA

0x1009

English - Great Britain

en-GB

0x0809

English - Indian

en-IN

0x4009

English - United States

en-US

0x0409

Spanish - Spain

es-ES

0x2C0A

Spanish - Mexico

es-MX

0x080A

Finnish - Finland

fi-FI

0x040B

French - Canada

fr-CA

0x0C0C

French - France

fr-FR

0x040c

Italian - Italy

it-IT

0x0410

Japanese - Japan

ja-JP

0x0411

Korean - Korea

ko-KR

0x0412

Norwegian - Norway

nb-NO

0x0414

Dutch - Netherlands

nl-NL

0x0813

Polish - Poland

pl-PL

0x0415

Portuguese - Brazil

pt-BR

0x0416

Portuguese - Portugal

pt-PT

0x0816

Russian - Russia

ru-RU

0x0419

Swedish - Sweden

sv-SE

0x081D

Chinese - China

zh-CN

0x0804

Chinese - Hong Kong

zh-HK

0x0C04

Chinese - Taiwan

zh-TW

0x0404

For more information about language codes, see Language Identifier Constants and Strings.