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Supported Languages with Cablecast Translations

Last Updated:May 26, 2026

Cablecast supports transcription and translation for the following languages, organized by broadcast capability.

Note

All languages are enabled by default. To limit which languages appear, go to Settings > System Settings > Languages and deselect any you do not want to include.

Broadcast Languages

(Part of the 608 Closed Captions specification – supported on cable broadcasts, live streams, and VOD)

  • Dutch (nl) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • English (en) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • French (fr) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • German (de) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Italian (it) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Spanish (es) – Transcribable, Translatable

Other Languages

(Supported over Video On Demand only)

  • Afrikaans (af) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Albanian (sq) – Translatable

  • Amharic (am) – Translatable

  • Arabic (Modern Standard) (ar) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Armenian (hy) – Translatable

  • Azerbaijani (az) – Translatable

  • Bengali (bn) – Translatable

  • Bosnian (bs) – Translatable

  • Bulgarian (bg) – Translatable

  • Catalan (ca) – Translatable

  • Chinese (Simplified) (zh) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Croatian (hr) – Translatable

  • Czech (cs) – Translatable

  • Danish (da) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Dari (prs) – Translatable

  • Estonian (et) – Translatable

  • Farsi (fa) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Filipino (Tagalog) (tl) – Translatable

  • Finnish (fi) – Translatable

  • Georgian (ka) – Translatable

  • Greek (el) – Translatable

  • Gujarati (gu) – Translatable

  • Haitian Creole (ht) – Translatable

  • Hausa (ha) – Translatable

  • Hebrew (he) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Hindi (hi) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Hungarian (hu) – Translatable

  • Icelandic (is) – Translatable

  • Indonesian (id) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Irish (ga) – Translatable

  • Japanese (ja) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Kannada (kn) – Translatable

  • Kazakh (kk) – Translatable

  • Korean (ko) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Latvian (lv) – Translatable

  • Lithuanian (lt) – Translatable

  • Macedonian (mk) – Translatable

  • Malay (ms) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Malayalam (ml) – Translatable

  • Maltese (mt) – Translatable

  • Marathi (mr) – Translatable

  • Mongolian (mn) – Translatable

  • Norwegian (Bokmål) (nb) – Translatable

  • Pashto (ps) – Translatable

  • Polish (pl) – Translatable

  • Punjabi (pa) – Translatable

  • Romanian (ro) – Translatable

  • Russian (ru) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Serbian (sr) – Translatable

  • Sinhala (si) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Slovak (sk) – Translatable

  • Slovenian (sl) – Translatable

  • Somali (so) – Translatable

  • Swahili (sw) – Translatable

  • Swedish (sv) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Tamil (ta) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Telugu (te) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Thai (th) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Turkish (tr) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Ukrainian (uk) – Translatable

  • Urdu (ur) – Translatable

  • Uzbek (uz) – Translatable

  • Vietnamese (vi) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Welsh (cy) – Translatable