Hedy Multilingual Support in 2026 (30+ Languages for Real-Time Meeting Analysis)

Hedy supports 30+ languages for real-time conversation analysis, with even broader chat-language coverage on top of that. This post is the current reference for how multilingual support works in Hedy, which languages are available, and how to configure it. For the historical milestones — the original launch of multilingual chat output and the later expansion to multilingual understanding — see Hedy’s first multilingual chat update (July 2024) and Hedy’s first multilingual conversation update (October 2024).

How Multilingual Support Works in Hedy

Hedy supports 30+ languages for real-time conversation analysis, transcription, summaries, and chat. The exact list keeps growing — the language picker in Hedy Settings is always the authoritative current source.

There are two related capabilities to understand:

1. Conversation analysis: the languages Hedy can listen to and process in real time. Hedy transcribes the spoken language directly, then runs summaries, highlights, action items, and live coaching against that transcript. Examples include English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, with many more in the picker.
2. Chat and output: the languages Hedy can respond back to you in. You can ask questions and receive insights, summaries, and meeting recaps in any supported language — even when the conversation itself was in a different language.

A Spanish-language client call can produce English action items for headquarters. A German engineering meeting can be summarized in Mandarin for an APAC stakeholder. A Japanese lecture can give you a Portuguese recap.

How to Set It Up

1. Open Hedy and go to Settings → Speech & AI.
2. Pick your preferred conversation language (or use auto-detect if your meetings switch languages).
3. Pick your preferred chat language separately if you’d like Hedy to respond in a different language than the spoken one.
4. Start a session — Hedy will analyze in the spoken language and respond in your chat language.

The language can also be set per session when you create it, so you don’t need to change global settings every time you switch contexts.

Who Benefits Most

• International teams holding cross-border meetings where participants prefer different languages
• Students and academics in multilingual classes, lectures, and conferences
• Coaches and consultants with clients in different markets who want notes in the client’s language and reports in their own
• Journalists conducting source interviews in one language and writing copy in another
• Anyone learning a language who wants to practice listening in the target language while having Hedy explain things in their native one

On-Device, Cloud, and Data Residency

Speech recognition runs on-device by default, which keeps audio off any server — important for legal, medical, journalism, and other privacy-sensitive contexts. Optional cloud providers (Deepgram, OpenAI) extend the language list further and improve accuracy on specific languages, but require sending audio off-device. Both options are available in Settings → Speech & AI.

For users who select EU data residency, all conversation processing — including multilingual analysis — runs through European infrastructure.

“Every conversation is an opportunity to shine, regardless of what language you’re most comfortable in,” says Julian Pscheid, founder of Hedy AI. “We want more people, in more languages, to access Hedy’s full capability in a way that feels natural.”

Looking Ahead

We continue to add languages as model quality improves and as users tell us what they need. Check the language picker in app settings for the current list. If a language you need isn’t there yet, let us know — user demand is what drives the roadmap.