---
title: Language Detection spoke
description: The ServiceNow Language Detection Service spoke is an in-house language detection service offered by the ServiceNow platform. It provides a single subflow and action to identify the language of a given text.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-administration/dynamic-translation/in-house-language-detection.html
release: australia
product: Dynamic Translation
classification: dynamic-translation
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Translating with Dynamic Translation, Dynamic Translation, Translation and localization, Configure core features, Administer the ServiceNow AI Platform]
---

# Language Detection spoke

The ServiceNow Language Detection Service spoke is an in-house language detection service offered by the ServiceNow platform. It provides a single subflow and action to identify the language of a given text.

The ServiceNow Language Detection Service spoke plugin \(com.glide.language\_detection\_spoke\) is available with the activation of Dynamic Translation plugin \(com.glide.dynamic\_translation\).

This spoke creates an entry named ServiceNow in Dynamic Translation's Translator Configurations \(sn\_dt\_translator\_configuration\) table. By default, this entry is active and marked as default for detection. To configure your own language detection service, see [Integration with other translation services](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/dynamic-translation/integration-with-other-translation-services.md).

## Subscription

This spoke requires any ServiceNow subscription that is Professional or above, and includes Dynamic Translation.

## Supported versions

API versions v3 and v4.

## Spoke subflow

The spoke provides the subflow in the Published state to integrate with the ServiceNow language detection service.

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Subflow

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Description

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Inputs

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Detect Language \[detect\_language\_v3\] or \[detect\_language\_v4\]

</td><td>

Detects the languages of texts using ServiceNow Language Detection Service.The v4 flows for Dynamic Translation are supported from the Xanadu Patch 3 release. For more information, see [Migrate customized Translator Configurations to v4 flows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/dynamic-translation/migrate-v4-dynamic-translation.md).

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</table>## Spoke action

The spoke provides the action in the Published state to integrate with the ServiceNow language detection service.

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Subflow

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Inputs

</td></tr><tr><td>

Detect Language \[detect\_language\_v3\] or \[detect\_language\_v4\]

</td><td>

Detects the languages of texts using ServiceNow Language Detection Service. The v4 flows for Dynamic Translation are supported from the Xanadu Patch 3 release. For more information, see [Migrate customized Translator Configurations to v4 flows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/dynamic-translation/migrate-v4-dynamic-translation.md).

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>The ServiceNow Language Detection service uses the following Dynamic Translation APIs to detect the language of the input texts:

-   getDetectedLanguage: Provides text to identify the languages.
-   getDetectedLanguages: Provides texts to identify the languages.

For more information, see [DynamicTranslation API](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/dynamic-translation/dyn-translation-apis.md).