Language support in Textual

Tonic Textual supports languages in addition to English. Textual automatically detects the language and applies the correct model.

On self-hosted instances, you configure whether to support multiple languages, and can optionally provide auxiliary language models.

Supported languages

Textual can detect values in the following languages:

Name	Code
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Armenian	hy
Assamese	as
Azerbaijani	az
Basque	eu
Belarusian	be
Bengali	bn
Bengali Romanized
Bosnian	bs
Breton	br
Bulgarian	bg
Burmese	my
Burmese (alternative)
Catalan	ca
Chinese (Simplified)	zh
Chinese (Traditional)	zh
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dutch	nl
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Estonian	et
Filipino	tl
Finnish	fi
French	fr
Galician	gl
Irish	ga
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Gujarati	gu
Hausa	ha
Hebrew	he
Hindi	hi
Hindi Romanized
Hungarian	hu
Icelandic	is
Indonesian	id
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Javanese	jv
Kannada	kn
Kazakh	kk
Khmer	km
Korean	ko
Kurdish (Kurmanji)	ku
Kyrgyz	ky
Lao	lo
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lithuanian	lt
Macedonian	mk
Malagasy	mg
Malay	ms
Malayalam	ml
Marathi	mr
Mongolian	mn
Nepali	ne
Norwegian	no
Oriya	or
Oromo	om
Pashto	ps
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi	pa
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Sanskrit	sa
Scottish Gaelic	gd
Serbian	sr
Sinhala	si
Sindhi	sd
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tamil	ta
Tamil Romanized
Telugu	te
Telugu Romanized
Thai	th
Turkish	tr
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Urdu Romanized
Uyghur	ug
Uzbek	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Welsh	cy
Western Frisian	fy
Xhosa	xh
Yiddish	yi

Self-hosted instances

On a self-hosted instance, you configure whether Textual supports multiple languages.

You can also optionally provide auxiliary language models.

Enabling multi-language support

To enable support for languages other than English, set the environment variable TEXTUAL_MULTI_LINGUAL=true.

The setting is used by the machine learning container.

Providing auxiliary language model assets

You can provide additional language model assets for Textual to use.

By default, Textual looks for model assets in the machine learning container, in /usr/bin/textual/language_models. The default Helm and Docker Compose configurations include the volume mount.

To choose a different location, set the environment variable TEXTUAL_LANGUAGE_MODEL_DIRECTORY. Note that if you change the location, you must also modify your volume mounts.

For help with installing model assets, contact Tonic.ai support ([e-mail]).