Can an AI notetaker transcribe a meeting in two languages?
Yes, if the transcription engine identifies language per word rather than per meeting. Reline recognises 60 languages and detects the language automatically as people speak, so a call that moves between, say, French and English is transcribed as spoken, not translated. You can set a preferred language as a hint, and the summary can be written in whichever language you choose.
Yes, if the transcription engine identifies language per word rather than per meeting. Reline recognises 60 languages and detects the language automatically as people speak, so a call that moves between, say, French and English is transcribed as spoken, not translated. You can set a preferred language as a hint, and the summary can be written in whichever language you choose.
The details
- The difference is where the language decision is made. Some tools ask you to pick one language before the call and force everything through it, which garbles the second language. Reline's engine tags each word with the language it hears, so switching mid-sentence is handled rather than fought.
- Live transcription makes this harder than transcribing a file afterwards, because the engine has to decide with little context. Early language tags can be revised as more speech arrives, which is why a live line may correct itself a moment later.
- The transcript is what was said, in the language it was said. It is not a translation. If you need the whole meeting in one language, ask for the summary in that language, or ask a question in chat and get the answer in the language you typed.
- A preferred language is a hint, not a lock. Set it in the transcript panel or in settings when most of your meetings are in one language and you want names and technical terms recognised more reliably. It applies to all your recordings, not one note.
- Summaries have their own language setting. A meeting held in Portuguese can produce notes in English for a team that reads English, and the transcript stays in Portuguese underneath for anyone who wants the source.
- The audio is kept with the note, so when a term looks wrong in either language you press play on the line and hear it. That matters more in mixed-language meetings, where names and numbers are the first things a transcript gets wrong.
Last updated September 2026
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