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people speak German
German is an official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Belgium. Germany is the largest economy in the EU, and the wider DACH region is one of Europe's wealthiest markets.
Real-time and async German speech-to-text API that keeps up with how people actually talk. Handles regional accents, fast speech, and code-switching mid-sentence. Live in production in under a day.
We evaluated Gladia's Word Error Rate (WER) for German across various datasets.
Gladia's internal production dataset of real customer calls, annotated by humans.
Common Voice is a crowd-sourced dataset of volunteers reading aloud, across a wide range of accents and microphones.
FLEURS is a multilingual benchmark of read sentences, built to compare languages on the same content.
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German is an official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Belgium. Germany is the largest economy in the EU, and the wider DACH region is one of Europe's wealthiest markets.
Supporting German lets you serve customers across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and reach German-speaking communities in South Tyrol and Luxembourg, without building a separate product for each market.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows German speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, German shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Teams across the DACH region meet in Standard German, Austrian German, and Swiss German, so notes need to follow every variety around the table.
Meeting assistants →Turn every German support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →German says numbers ones-first, so 21 is einundzwanzig, and voice agents have to get phone numbers, prices, and dates in the right order.
Voice agents →Public broadcasters ARD and ZDF run large online media libraries of German-language programming, much of it offered with subtitles for accessibility.
Media →Supported languages
Being multilingual has been our priority since day one. Gladia supports 100 languages, with code-switching and automatic language detection integrated into all models by default.
Ship German voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
