Languages and voices

Languages

A channel can speak up to 12 languages, listed in its identity; the first is its own. A film’s text, numbers and units follow the language, and numbers can use the language’s own digits (Hindi, Arabic, Persian and Thai have them).

Supported: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (simplified and traditional).

• Each language needs its own script and always Latin, for digits and units. One font that covers both is enough; the check says which role and script lacks a face and suggests one.
• Arabic, Persian and Hebrew run right to left, and the layout mirrors itself.
• Every language but English writes the handful of words the format draws itself (next, limit, today, and so on); the check names what is missing.

Films in several languages are arriving: today a film is in its channel’s first language. See Channels and identity for where languages are set.

Voices

Voices are opening soon: our stock voices, with a daily allowance, your own voice key, and your own recorded takes. This page will say how when they do. Captions come per language either way.