Fact · Languages and accents
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Vowen's home page says its Whisper speech recognition understands 99 languages and works out which one the user is speaking.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper understands 99 languages and works out which one you are using”
Vowen home page, Vowen, 2026, Home page, 'Heard in 99 languages' section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Vowen is a dictation app for Mac and Windows. Its documentation says that Parakeet, Whisper, Nemotron and more run on the user's device, and that cloud engines can be used with the user's own API key.
- What it does not show
- A single figure for the engine, not a list of the 99 languages. The page does not say which of them every feature supports. The Parakeet V3 figure is a separate row.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as Vowen, Whisper engine: 99 languages.
- System
- Vowen (Whisper)
- Maker
- Vowen
- Kind
- Dictation app
- What is counted
- Languages
- On device
- Yes
- As of
- 2026-10
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 224 published figures for “Dictation app” have a median of 50 languages, ranging from 1 to 1,600.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 383 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 322 distinct sources.