Fact · Languages and accents
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Google's developer reference for the Google Assistant Service lists 14 language and region codes that its speech recognition engine can understand, covering 8 languages.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“The Google Assistant Service can recognize speech and respond back accordingly in the following languages”
Language Support (Google Assistant Service, Google Developers), Google Developers, 2024, Language table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table below the quote lists each language with its code: German, English (Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, United States), French (Canada, France), Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Korean and Portuguese (Brazil). The count is 14 entries, which makes 8 languages once regional variants are merged.
- What it does not show
- The page was last updated on 2024-09-18. It describes the developer service, not the consumer Assistant on phones, and a count of codes is not a claim about accuracy in each one.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as Google Assistant Service API: 14 languages.
- System
- Google Assistant Service API
- Maker
- Kind
- Voice assistant
- What is counted
- Languages and regional variants
- On device
- Not stated
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- Counted the 14 language_code entries in the table (14 entries; 8 distinct languages). The page does not give a total, so the count is ours.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 5 published figures for “Voice assistant” have a median of 15 languages, ranging from 14 to 45.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 45 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 39 distinct sources.