Web/API/AudioTrack/language

The read-only AudioTrack property language returns a string identifying the language used in the audio track. For tracks that include multiple languages (such as a movie in English in which a few lines are spoken in other languages), this should be the video's primary language.

Syntax

var audioTrackLanguage = AudioTrack.language;

Value

A DOMString specifying the BCP 47 (RFC 5646) format language tag of the primary language used in the audio track, or an empty string ("") if the language is not specified or known, or if the track doesn't contain speech.

For example, if the primary language used in the track is United States English, this value would be "en-US". For Brazilian Portuguese, the value would be "pt-BR".

Example

This example locates all of a media element's primary language and translated audio tracks and returns a list of objects containing each of those tracks' id, kind, and language.

This could then be used to build a user interface for selecting the language the user would like to listen to while watching a movie, for example.

function getAvailableLanguages(el) {
  var trackList = [];
  const wantedKinds = [
    "main", "translation"
  ];

  el.audioTracks.forEach(function(track) {
    if (wantedKinds.includes(track.kind)) {
      trackList.push({
        id: track.id,
        kind: track.kind,
        language: track.language
      });
    }
  });
  return trackList;
}

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
HTML Living StandardThe definition of 'AudioTrack.language' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5The definition of 'AudioTrack.language' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
`language`	Chrome Full support 37 Disabled' Full support 37 Disabled' Disabled' From version 37: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). To change preferences in Chrome, visit chrome://flags.	Edge Full support 79 Disabled' Full support 79 Disabled' Disabled' From version 79: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). No support 12 — 79	Firefox Full support 33 Disabled' Full support 33 Disabled' Disabled' From version 33: this feature is behind the `media.track.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	IE Full support 10	Opera Full support 24 Disabled' Full support 24 Disabled' Disabled' From version 24: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`).	Safari Full support 6.1	WebView Android No support No	Chrome Android Full support 37 Disabled' Full support 37 Disabled' Disabled' From version 37: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`). To change preferences in Chrome, visit chrome://flags.	Firefox Android Full support 33 Disabled' Full support 33 Disabled' Disabled' From version 33: this feature is behind the `media.track.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	Opera Android Full support 24 Disabled' Full support 24 Disabled' Disabled' From version 24: this feature is behind the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` preference (needs to be set to `enabled`).	Safari iOS Full support 7	Samsung Internet Android No support No

Legend

Full support: Full support
No support: No support
User must explicitly enable this feature.': User must explicitly enable this feature.

AudioTrack.language by Mozilla Contributors is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.