Languages supported

[Zireael07]

Which languages are supported?

[KoljaB]

Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

[skripnik]

Here you can find all the language codes that Whisper supports: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/tokenizer.py

[skripnik]

It would be nice to mention allowed language values in README.md. Something like this:

• language (str, default=""): Language code for transcription. If left empty, the model will try to auto-detect the language. Supported language codes are listed in Whisper Tokenizer library.