Not only English. About a hundred languages.
Most local-first recorders are quietly English-only. yapyap is not, because the open models it runs were multilingual before anyone tried to sell them by the seat.
In short: transcription runs on models like Whisper, which understands roughly a hundred languages. You pick yours in settings, and it is still your machine doing the work.
What multilingual actually means here
- Pick the language of the recording in settings before or after you record.
- Support follows the model you chose, so a smaller model handles fewer languages well than a larger one.
- No per-language upgrade, add-on, or region: what the model knows, you have.
- The rest of the pipeline does not care what language it is: speaker names and lenses work the same.
Why it matters more when it is local
Cloud transcription tends to price and support languages by market size, so the smaller your language the worse the deal and the longer the wait. A model on your own disk has already been trained; there is no business case deciding whether your language is worth serving this quarter.
The honest limit: quality varies by language, and a language the model handles poorly will not be rescued by running it locally. Try your own audio during the free trial rather than taking a list on trust.
FAQ
- Which languages does yapyap support?
- Roughly a hundred, following the open models it runs. Whisper publishes its own list. Because support depends on the model you pick in settings, the honest answer is to test your language on your own audio during the trial.
- Can it transcribe a conversation in two languages?
- Mixed-language audio is the hardest case for any speech model, local or cloud. It often works, and it is worth testing with a real recording of the way you and the other person actually speak.
- Does using another language send my audio anywhere?
- No. Language is a setting on a model already sitting on your disk. Nothing about the choice changes where the work happens.
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