Language Identification

Language Identification

This page describes an old version of the Language Identification API, which was part of ML Kit for Firebase. Development of this API has been moved to the standalone ML Kit SDK, which you can use with or without Firebase. Learn more.

See Language Identification for the latest documentation.

With ML Kit's on-device language identification API, you can determine the language of a string of text.

Language identification can be useful when working with user-provided text, which often doesn't come with any language information.

iOS Android

This is a beta release of ML Kit for Firebase. This API might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.

Key capabilities

Broad language support	Identifies over a hundred different languages. See the complete list.
Romanized text support	Identifies Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese text in both native and romanized script.

Example results

Simple language identification
"My hovercraft is full of eels."	en (English)
"Dao shan xue hai"	zh-Latn (Latinized Chinese)
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh TensorFlow Google wgah'nagl fhtagn"	und (undetermined)

Confidence distribution
"an amicable coup d'etat"	en (0.52) fr (0.44) ca (0.03)