{
 "name": "Languages people transcribe, by audio hours (WhipScribe production)",
 "url": "https://whipscribe.com/proof/languages",
 "measured_at": "2026-10-26",
 "window": {
  "from": "2026-07-28",
  "to": "2026-10-25",
  "days": 90,
  "timezone": "UTC"
 },
 "population": {
  "jobs_seen": 7417,
  "jobs_excluded": 1856,
  "excluded_by_reason": {
   "internal account": 267,
   "test file": 101,
   "internal person": 24,
   "internal API key": 928,
   "direct API integration": 536
  },
  "jobs_over_account_cap": 262,
  "accounts": 4107,
  "jobs_kept": 5299,
  "finished_60s_plus": 3469
 },
 "min_cell": 20,
 "min_accounts": 5,
 "account_cap": 20,
 "cite": "WhipScribe, \"Which languages do people transcribe most? Measured\", measured 2026-10-26, https://whipscribe.com/proof/languages",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "verdict": "English is 37% of the audio hours people transcribe on WhipScribe; then Spanish 15%, Persian 7%, Portuguese 6%. 70 languages appeared in 90 days, 15 of them in 20 recordings or more.",
 "languages": {
  "n_with_language": 2478,
  "n_unknown": 786,
  "audio_hours": 2196,
  "languages_seen": 70,
  "languages_with_20_plus": 15,
  "mostly_no_speech": {
   "n": 205,
   "audio_hours": 129
  },
  "top": [
   {
    "code": "en",
    "name": "English",
    "n": 984,
    "accounts": 806,
    "audio_hours": 816.0,
    "share_hours": 0.3715,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.83
   },
   {
    "code": "es",
    "name": "Spanish",
    "n": 171,
    "accounts": 123,
    "audio_hours": 318.7,
    "share_hours": 0.1451,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.75
   },
   {
    "code": "fa",
    "name": "Persian",
    "n": 279,
    "accounts": 240,
    "audio_hours": 154.1,
    "share_hours": 0.0702,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.82
   },
   {
    "code": "pt",
    "name": "Portuguese",
    "n": 75,
    "accounts": 59,
    "audio_hours": 137.9,
    "share_hours": 0.0628,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.8
   },
   {
    "code": "tl",
    "name": "Tagalog / Filipino",
    "n": 179,
    "accounts": 133,
    "audio_hours": 99.1,
    "share_hours": 0.0451,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.79
   },
   {
    "code": "hi",
    "name": "Hindi",
    "n": 69,
    "accounts": 61,
    "audio_hours": 95.9,
    "share_hours": 0.0437,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.82
   },
   {
    "code": "ru",
    "name": "Russian",
    "n": 68,
    "accounts": 60,
    "audio_hours": 63.8,
    "share_hours": 0.0291,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.79
   },
   {
    "code": "fr",
    "name": "French",
    "n": 63,
    "accounts": 38,
    "audio_hours": 59.6,
    "share_hours": 0.0271,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.78
   },
   {
    "code": "zh",
    "name": "Chinese",
    "n": 58,
    "accounts": 52,
    "audio_hours": 52.8,
    "share_hours": 0.024,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.82
   },
   {
    "code": "de",
    "name": "German",
    "n": 29,
    "accounts": 21,
    "audio_hours": 32.2,
    "share_hours": 0.0147,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.88
   },
   {
    "code": "ja",
    "name": "Japanese",
    "n": 31,
    "accounts": 23,
    "audio_hours": 26.2,
    "share_hours": 0.0119,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.68
   },
   {
    "code": "ca",
    "name": "Catalan",
    "n": 25,
    "accounts": 23,
    "audio_hours": 21.3,
    "share_hours": 0.0097,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.84
   },
   {
    "code": "ar",
    "name": "Arabic",
    "n": 20,
    "accounts": 17,
    "audio_hours": 16.1,
    "share_hours": 0.0073,
    "median_speech_ratio": null
   },
   {
    "code": "ta",
    "name": "Tamil",
    "n": 37,
    "accounts": 27,
    "audio_hours": 10.0,
    "share_hours": 0.0045,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.87
   },
   {
    "code": "bn",
    "name": "Bengali",
    "n": 21,
    "accounts": 20,
    "audio_hours": 5.3,
    "share_hours": 0.0024,
    "median_speech_ratio": 0.87
   }
  ],
  "rest": {
   "languages": 55,
   "audio_hours": 287.4
  }
 }
}