Fact · Languages and accents
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WhisPaste says its Whisper speech recognition engine supports 99 languages.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Which languages can I speak? Whisper supports 99 languages; Parakeet supports about 25 European languages.”
WhisPaste: Desktop voice input, free on GitHub, WhisPaste (Silvio Lindstedt and Maik Gräfendorf, GbR), 2026, FAQ: Which languages can I speak?.
Open the original- What it measures
- WhisPaste offers two local speech engines, Whisper and Parakeet, chosen in its settings. Its home page says speech recognition runs locally by default, and the FAQ gives the language count for each engine.
- What it does not show
- The count is the maker's statement for the engine as shipped in WhisPaste. The page gives no accuracy for individual languages, and the number does not show how well each language works with the chosen model size.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as WhisPaste, Whisper engine: 99 languages.
- System
- WhisPaste (Whisper engine)
- Maker
- WhisPaste
- 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.