Language selection in faster-whisper inside of HA

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Hey,

I installed the latest stable HA (just for testing right now on my machine, to see if it's viable to me) as well as a `rhasspy/wyoming-whisper` container, and whisper has the options `--model small-int8` as well as `--language auto` (so one can use english or german, or mixed) but inside of the Voice Assistant settings `faster-whisper` only has the selection "english" and nothing else. If I instead set it to `--language de` I still only have english as a selection. I found a "solved" Github issue from 3 years ago but that's it.

It kind of translates it, so speaking german in general generates correct-ish english text but that's not how it's intended here.

Can someone tell if I'm already doing something obviously wrong or if it only supports english?

Posted Aug 29, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

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