# Meetings API does not support non-default languages for language interpretation

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/meetings-api-does-not-support-non-default-languages-for-language-interpretation/88940>\
**Category:** Meetings\
**Created:** [May 24, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/meetings-api-does-not-support-non-default-languages-for-language-interpretation/88940 "2023-05-24T08:11:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![odrilon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@odrilon](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/odrilon)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/meetings-api-does-not-support-non-default-languages-for-language-interpretation/88940/1 "2023-05-24T08:11:40Z")

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**API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)**  
`post /users/{userId}/meetings`

**Description**  
The API to configure language interpretation in meetings expects interpreter languages to be specified by a pair of country codes. But only country codes for the 9 default languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, etc) are supported. Entering a valid country code for a country that doesn’t speak a default language results in an error.

For example, the following interpreter declaration correctly creates an English to French interpreter in the meeting:

```json
{"email": "example@example.com", "languages": "US,FR"}

```

But the following declaration has an error (I expect an English to Vietnamese interpreter in the meeting):

```json
{"email": "example@example.com", "languages": "US,VN"}

```

```json
{"code":300,"message":"Unsupported language in language_interpretation_settings: US,VN."}

```

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On the other hand, the GUI for “custom languages” seems to use an internal mechanism that’s not available to the public API. I created two custom languages (one real, and one imaginary), then retrieved the user settings from `users/{userId}/settings`. The endpoint returned the following information:

```json
"language_interpretation":{
  "enable":true,
  "languages":["English","Chinese","Japanese","German","French","Russian","Portuguese","Spanish","Korean"],
  "custom_languages":["Vietnamese","Dummy Lang"],
  "enable_language_interpretation_by_default":true
}

```

The settings don’t imply a country code I can submit to the API, and trying to create a “US,VN” interpreter still doesn’t work even after adding that real language as a custom language.

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**Author:** ![odrilon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@odrilon](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/odrilon)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/meetings-api-does-not-support-non-default-languages-for-language-interpretation/88940/2 "2023-06-01T01:33:31Z")

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Hi, I’d like to follow-up whether this is an intended discrepancy between the GUI for assigning language interpreters and the Meetings API for doing the same thing.