Fact · Languages and accents
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In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 18 published figures for “Built-in dictation” have a median of 15 languages, ranging from 4 to 63.
Calculated from 18 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 18 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 18 values (4, 6, 6, 6, 11, 12, 13, 13, 15, 15, 16, 20, 46, 48, 48, 50, 63, 63) = 15.
- What it does not show
- Makers count differently: some list languages, others locales. Support also varies by device and feature, so a language on the list may not work offline or everywhere.
A statistic of the dataset How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, calculated by code from its published rows.
Calculated from
- The general Dictation section of Apple's iOS and iPadOS 27 feature availability page lists 63 language and region entries.
- Google says Assistant voice typing is available in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
- Claude Code's voice dictation supports 20 languages, listed in its documentation from Czech to Ukrainian.
- Claude's mobile help article lists 12 languages for dictation on iOS and Android.
- Google's Gboard help lists six languages for advanced voice typing with automatic language switching: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
- Apple's iOS feature availability table lists 48 language and regional variants for On-Device and Modeless Dictation.
- Apple's macOS feature availability page lists 63 language and regional variants for Dictation on the Mac.
- Apple lists 48 language and regional variants for on-device and modeless Dictation on the Mac, which require a download of speech models.
- Samsung's UAE Transcript Assist page lists 13 languages for transcription and transformation.
- Samsung's US Voice Recorder page lists 16 languages for Transcript assist, including several regional forms of English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Microsoft lists 15 languages and dialects for Voice Access in Windows 11: six English variants, two Spanish, German, two French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Italian.
- Microsoft's Voice access command list says Voice access is available in six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Japanese.
- Microsoft's Voice Access FAQ says the feature is currently available in English, Spanish, French and German, which is four languages.
- WebKit says Safari's speech recognition, powered by the Siri engine, gives high-quality transcription for over 50 languages and dialects.
- Windows 10 dictation accepts speech in 13 language variants, US English plus 12 that Microsoft lists for basic text, symbols, letters and numbers, but its dictation commands work only in US English.
- Microsoft's Windows 11 voice typing article lists 46 languages and locales that support voice typing, from Bulgarian to Vietnamese.
- Microsoft says Windows Speech Recognition is available only in English (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India and Australia), French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Simplified and Traditional Chinese) and Spanish, 11 variants in all.
- Microsoft's Dictate in Word article lists 15 main supported languages and locales, from Chinese (China) to Spanish (Mexico), with a separate list of preview languages.