Made for the way Switzerland speaks
Swiss German is not one language with one spelling. It is a family of dialects that change from valley to valley. The API is built around that, and around French and Italian in Switzerland as well.
Swiss varieties in the catalogue
| Variety | Code | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Swiss German, supra-regional | de-CH (standard) | hand-tuned |
| Zürich German (Züritüütsch) | de-CH-zurich | hand-tuned |
| Bernese German (Bärndütsch) | de-CH-bern | hand-tuned |
| Basel German (Baaseldütsch) | de-CH-basel | hand-tuned |
| Lucerne German (Lozärnerdütsch) | de-CH-luzern | hand-tuned |
| Swiss French (Romandie) | fr-CH | hand-tuned |
| Swiss High German | de-CH-hochdeutsch | best effort |
| Swiss Italian (Ticino) | it-CH | best effort |
14 further Swiss German regions
St. Gallen, Thurgau, Schaffhausen, Appenzell, Glarus, Graubünden, Aargau, Solothurn, Bernese Oberland, Fribourg, Valais, Zug, Schwyz and Uri. Rendered on a best-effort basis: listen before you use one in production.
Accents of the Romandie
Swiss French with the accent of Geneva, Vaud, Valais, Neuchâtel, Fribourg or the Jura.
What the status means. Hand-tuned varieties are the ones we run and measure in production. Best-effort varieties are accepted and rendered, but we publish no quality claim for them. The live list is always available from the API.
And when your callers speak dialect
Recognition understands Swiss German from every region and writes it as Standard German text. It also recognises Swiss High German, French, Italian and English, and it can detect which one is spoken.
Numbers the Swiss way
A phone number read in Bernese sounds different from one read in Zürich German. The API reads digits and phone numbers per dialect, in the familiar 3-3-2-2 grouping.
<speak>
Mir rüefed Sie zrugg uf
<say-as interpret-as="telephone">+41 31 533 22 02</say-as>.
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