60 languages, supported today

SubLive translates live speech into subtitles in 60 languages, and you only ever choose one of them: the language you want to read. 10 spoken languages are detected automatically from the tab's audio — Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish — so a call that drifts between any of them keeps producing subtitles without anyone touching a setting. For every other language, including Arabic, Ukrainian, Greek, Polish, the Balkan languages, Chinese, Korean and the languages of India, you pick the spoken language once from the dropdown — recognition is steadier that way anyway when there is music or noise behind the speech. That matters most in the situations SubLive is built for — job interviews, client calls and lectures, where stopping to change a dropdown is not an option.

Every language on this list works in both directions: it can be the language being spoken and the language you read. Someone in Vilnius can read a Spanish webinar in Lithuanian, and a colleague in Madrid can read the same webinar in Spanish, from the same extension and the same balance. Names, products and internal terms can be pinned with your own glossary, so they come out the way your team writes them rather than the way a general-purpose model guesses.

The list is bounded by the speech recognition and translation providers behind SubLive, and it grows as their coverage grows. Irish and Maltese are the two official EU languages not yet covered end to end, and they are the ones we watch most closely. If the language you need is missing, write to [email protected] — demand is what decides the order in which languages get added.