AreaAudit

Which languages each generator says it supports, and where

Target language: the one with revenue attached to it

A target language is the language something is delivered in. It is the list a buyer is actually purchasing, it is normally shorter than the input list, and where a vendor publishes only one figure it is rarely clear which of the two it is. As of 2026-09-22.

The list a buyer purchases, and the one usually quotedThe output list decides which markets a release reaches and is almost always the shorter of the two. Publishing both means printing the smaller figure beside the larger, which is a disclosure decision rather than a product property.The output listThe input listWhat it buysMarkets a release can reachMaterial that can be processedTypical lengthShorterLongerCost to extendHigh, a voice per languageLower, recordings existUsually publishedRarely, on its ownSometimes, as if it were the offerGeneration products have two lists as well
Fig. 1 Four vendors here publish a figure with no list and none of them states which side of the pipeline it describes.
The target list against the input list, as a purchase. Recorded 2026-09-22.
PropertyTarget listInput list
What it buysMarkets a release can reachMaterial that can be processed
Typical lengthShorterLonger
Quoted in marketingSometimesSometimes, as if it were the target
Published hereBy one vendor explicitlyBy the same vendor

Inclusion rule. The two lists a conversion product has, compared on what a buyer gets from each. Only one vendor read here separates them. Order. Fixed order, the purchased list first.

1The shorter number is the offer

A production choosing a vendor is buying markets. A figure describing what a system can read describes the intake, and quoting it in a sentence about language support is the most common way a large number comes to mean very little.

Where both are published this register records the target figure as the entry. It is the smaller number in every case, which is why publishing both is a decision a vendor has to be willing to make.

2A single figure with no direction is unusable

Four vendors here publish a spoken-language count with no list. None of them states whether the figure describes what the product can take in, what it can put out, or both.

For a bare count that ambiguity is on top of the ambiguity about units. A reader has a number whose direction and whose unit are both unstated, which is close to no information at all.

3Generation products have a target list too

A tool that generates rather than converts still has one: the languages a finished video can speak. One vendor here names such a set and adds a language available for speech and not for the interface.

That extra language is the clearest evidence in the register that the two lists are maintained separately rather than one being derived from the other. It appears in an output column and in no site column.

A definition, not a measurement: no vendor figure appears here that is not also in the register. The one language appearing in an output list and not a site list is noted on that cell.

Nearby terms: Source language, Dubbing. The whole vocabulary is at terms; nothing on this page is a claim about a named product.