Set Your Meeting Transcription Language: Default, Auto-Detect, Multi-Language or Custom

Fireflies helps you effortlessly manage your meeting transcription language. Whether you prefer setting a default language, auto-detecting the language spoken, enabling multi-language mode, or customizing individual meetings, Fireflies has you covered.

1. Set Default Language

You can set Meeting Language from either Meeting Settings or Upcoming dashboard, whichever is easier for you.

Option 1: From Meeting Settings

Use this option if your meetings often include multiple languages and you want Fireflies to automatically detect and transcribe them by default.

1. Go to the Fireflies web app and click the Settings from left side menu.

2. Navigate to Recording & Privacy (Personal tab) and scroll down to Meeting language under Recording.

3. Click the dropdown under Meeting language. By default, this is set to English (Global).

• Select your preferred meeting language from the available options.

• Your selection is saved automatically.

Option 2: From Upcoming Dashboard

Use this option for the quickest way to enable Multi-Language Mode and choose which meetings it applies to.

1. From the Fireflies Home page, click Settings on the right side of the page.

2. In the Meeting Settings modal, click the dropdown under Meeting language. By default, this is set to English (Global).

• Select your preferred meeting language from the available options.

• Click Save to apply your changes.

Now, all future meetings will be transcribed in this default language.

2. Auto-detect meeting language

If you host meetings in different languages, Auto-detect automatically transcribes based on the primary language spoken. Click the dropdown and select Auto-detect.

3. Multi-Language Mode (Beta)

If your meetings involve participants speaking multiple languages simultaneously, Multi-Language Mode transcribes all languages spoken in a single meeting. Click the dropdown and select Multi-Language (Auto Detect) (Beta).

💡 Want to learn more about how it works? Multi-Language Mode Guide.

Change the Transcription Language for a Specific Meeting

Need a different language for a particular meeting? You can adjust the language just for that meeting without changing your global defaults.

1. On the Fireflies homepage, click the Upcoming tab.

2. Find the meeting you want to update and click the language icon.

3. From the dropdown, select your preferred language.

Only this meeting will be transcribed in the selected language, while your default settings remain unaffected.

Making Sense of It All

• Quickly set your default language for consistent transcriptions across all meetings

• Use Auto-detect if you regularly host meetings in different languages

• Enable Multi-Language Mode (Beta) for meetings where multiple languages are spoken simultaneously

• Customize individual meetings without changing your global settings

👉 Need more details on automatic joining? Learn about the Fireflies Auto-join and Email Recap settings