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Supported Languages with Cablecast Translations

Last Updated:February 7, 2026

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Note that all languages are enabled by default, but can be disabled in the settings by going to Settings > System Settings > Languages in Cablecast and deselecting languages that you do not want to include.

Broadcast Languages

(Part of the 608 Closed Captions specification – supported on cable broadcasts, live streams, and VOD)

  • Dutch (nl) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • English (en) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • French (fr) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • German (de) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Italian (it) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Spanish (es) – Transcribable, Translatable

Other Languages

(Currently only supported over Video On Demand)

  • Afrikaans (af) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Albanian (sq) – Translatable

  • Amharic (am) – Translatable

  • Arabic (Modern Standard) (ar) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Armenian (hy) – Translatable

  • Azerbaijani (az) – Translatable

  • Bengali (bn) – Translatable

  • Bosnian (bs) – Translatable

  • Bulgarian (bg) – Translatable

  • Catalan (ca) – Translatable

  • Chinese (Simplified) (zh) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Croatian (hr) – Translatable

  • Czech (cs) – Translatable

  • Danish (da) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Dari (prs) – Translatable

  • Estonian (et) – Translatable

  • Farsi (fa) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Filipino (Tagalog) (tl) – Translatable

  • Finnish (fi) – Translatable

  • Georgian (ka) – Translatable

  • Greek (el) – Translatable

  • Gujarati (gu) – Translatable

  • Haitian Creole (ht) – Translatable

  • Hausa (ha) – Translatable

  • Hebrew (he) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Hindi (hi) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Hungarian (hu) – Translatable

  • Icelandic (is) – Translatable

  • Indonesian (id) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Irish (ga) – Translatable

  • Japanese (ja) – Transcribable, Translatable

  • Kannada (kn) — Translatable

  • Kazakh (kk) — Translatable

  • Korean (ko) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Latvian (lv) — Translatable

  • Lithuanian (lt) — Translatable

  • Macedonian (mk) — Translatable

  • Malay (ms) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Malayalam (ml) — Translatable

  • Maltese (mt) — Translatable

  • Marathi (mr) — Translatable

  • Mongolian (mn) — Translatable

  • Norwegian (Bokmål) (nb) — Translatable

  • Pashto (ps) — Translatable

  • Polish (pl) — Translatable

  • Punjabi (pa) — Translatable

  • Romanian (ro) — Translatable

  • Russian (ru) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Serbian (sr) — Translatable

  • Sinhala (si) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Slovak (sk) — Translatable

  • Slovenian (sl) — Translatable

  • Somali (so) — Translatable

  • Swahili (sw) — Translatable

  • Swedish (sv) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Tamil (ta) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Telugu (te) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Thai (th) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Turkish (tr) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Ukrainian (uk) — Translatable

  • Urdu (ur) — Translatable

  • Uzbek (uz) — Translatable

  • Vietnamese (vi) — Transcribable, Translatable

  • Welsh (cy) — Translatable

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