Supported languages

IBM watsonx Orchestrate supports the languages in the following table. For more information on which languages that are supported for each feature, see Feature support details.

Table 1. The languages available and supported by the features of the product.
Language Language code
English en
Spanish es
Portuguese pt
German de
French fr
Arabic ar
Dutch nl
Italian it
Japanese ja
Chinese zh
Information: Review the known issues that are related to Japanese language translations.
Note: The administartor can configure the platform language in watsonx Orchestrate, see Configuring platform languages

Change the language settings


You can change the default language to one of the supported languages if your admin has added the language under the platform language settings.

To change the display language on watsonx Orchestrate, complete the following steps:

  1. Click the language header beside your profile on the upper right.
  2. Choose a language from the drop-down menu.
  3. You see a confirmation window, review and click Apply.

You changed the default language to one of the preferred languages on your tenant.

Feature support details

Some watsonx Orchestrate features are available only in specific languages. The following tables describe the languages that are available for each feature.

Note: The features not listed are supported in the languages available for watsonx Orchestrate.

Intent & Entity Classifier

Table 2. Supported languages for Intent & Entity Classifier features.
Feature Supported languages
Intent & Entity Classifier
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • French
  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Chinese

Generative AI

Table 3. Supported languages for Generative AI features.
Feature Supported languages
Large language model slot-filling
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • French
Base large language model
  • English
AI-guided actions
  • English
Conversational search
  • English
Skill-based actions
  • English
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • Spanish
AI agent configuration
  • English
  • Japanese

Projects in Skill studio

Table 4. Supported languages for Projects in Skill studio.
Feature Supported languages
Out of the box skills
  • English

Phone and voice

Table 5. Supported languages for Phone and Voice features.
Feature Supported languages
Large Speech Models
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Japanese
Expressive voices
  • English
  • Spanish
Recurrent neural network transducers speech models
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • French
  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
Text-to-Speech
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • French
  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Chinese

Product

Table 6. Supported languages by the interface of Watson Orchestrate.
Feature Supported languages
User Interface
  • English
  • Japanese

Configuring a web chat language

You can build AI assistants to handle with any of the supported languages, but when you use these AI assistants some texts still display in English. It occurs because some texts in the web chat are hardcoded and always appears in the English language by default.

To address it, the web chat offers language packs that provide translations of each hardcoded English phrase used in the web chat. You configure these packs by using the instance methods. For more information about the instance methods, see Supporting global audiences in web chat.

Note: Only multilingual large language models support the Japanese language.

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