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Supported Languages with Cablecast Translations

September 3, 2025

All Options Enabled

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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