# Choose the spoken language

Set the language a video is spoken in, or let Snipri detect it: the languages Snipri transcribes and captions, and when naming the language helps.

- Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language
- By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read
- Section: Add a video, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs)

Snipri writes the captions in the language the video is spoken in. It can work that language out by itself, and it transcribes more accurately when you name it.

## The languages

Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it.

Captions stay in the language that is spoken: Snipri doesn't translate them.

## Set the language

Once a video is in the Studio, the **Spoken language** field sits at the foot of the **Video** card. It starts on **Detect automatically**. Open it and choose the language from the list, where each one is named in English and in its own words.

The Studio remembers your choice in this browser, so your next video starts on the same language. Set it back to **Detect automatically** before you add a video in another language.

## When to name it

Leave it on **Detect automatically** when a video is plainly in one language. Name the language when:

- the video opens on music, silence or a few words in another language;
- the speakers have strong accents, or the recording is noisy;
- the language is close to another one on the list, such as Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

> **Note:** A video with no speech gives no clips in any language. [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) gives the message the Studio shows then.

[Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) covers the files the Studio takes.

Previous guide: [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video)

Next guide: [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings)

Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said.