How to listen to audiobooks in a different language

[BoxK]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Many

Operating System

Many

My Question or Issue

My Spotify account is based in the USA though I am learning Swedish and would like to listen to audiobooks in Swedish.  Searching for a book in Swedish doesn't yield good results.  I have found a few kids novels, but not much to challenge my listening or that I find very interesting.  Is there a way to find audiobooks in a certain category that are in a specific language, Swedish in my case, or some way to change the language of the audiobooks?

Thanks!

[BoxK]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for getting in touch about this here in the Community.

Keep in mind that we only provide the content that the author originally uploaded to Spotify. If the author uploaded the audiobook in English, users will receive the English version, regardless of their location. 

However, if the audiobook was uploaded in other languages, such as Dutch or French, we're afraid there's no way to translate it to English as we don't have a translation tool for that.

That being said, you can give this idea a +Vote as @Novy mentioned previously, since it's asking for a language-based search for audiobooks to find the ones in other languages easily. 

Hope this clears things up. 

Cheers!

[hennisy420]

Im in the us and all my settings are set in English. But ALL of my audiobooks are in German. There doesn't appear to be a language setting for the books, so how do i change it to English. And don't give me that region excuse and im not rerouting or using a VPN.

[Joan]

Hi there @hennisy420,

Thanks for reaching out. Is this the same across all devices, including the webplayer? Try that out if you haven't and let us know. Send us a few screenshots too so we can have a closer look.

Keep us posted.

[hennisy420]

i Dont know what happened but now its all in english. So im good now. Ty
for responding.

[emmajoy24]

I’m having the same issue, is there anything you did to change that????

[hennisy420]

I clicked on this link https://open.spotify.com/
to access my account and when i went to audiobooks they were in English

[New user]

I see mostly dutch audio books how to i switch this is english ?
My account is set to the Netherlands, everything else is set to english

[simonntasha]

Just started listening to audiobooks on Spotify, have a Premium/Family subscription.

I have only listened to or added to my library books in English to date.

Searching for the next Andy Weir audiobook by author, title or author and title and I get results in 4 languages, 2 different German versions, just not English. 
opening open.Spotify.com just took me to the already-open app, same results. 

[steve_watson]

I have exactly the same problem Audio Books are in German. But the language is set to English. How do I fix this problem?

[Novy]

Hey @BoxK,

Thanks for reaching out here in the Community. 

There's currently no way to change the language of Audiobooks. We appreciate you taking the time to share your comments with us, though. 

You can have a look in our Idea Exchange to see if someone else has already made a similar suggestion. If there isn't one, you can submit your own idea so that other users can also support it. The higher the number of votes an idea gets, the more likely it is for it to be implemented.
 

Once again, thanks for the feedback. The Community will be here if anything else comes up.

Cheers.

[th0th]

There are Spotify audiobooks available in languages other than English, but Spotify does not provide a way to search for books in a given language; one has to search for every author or title one at a time hoping to get a hit. This is a serious deficiency. I wish the powers that be would take the simple steps to implement a search screen that shows books in a specified language. It would be a tremendous improvement for many of us.

[TashaJ]

Any luck? This is the exact same book I’ve been trying to access in English.

[simonntasha]

Nope, I’m afraid not! Got the other two on a better known audiobook platform starting with A. They also have Artemis.

[michahell]

It’s really sad that you can’t search within a certain language or set your language preference. How basic of a feature is that??

[SasLB]

I live in the Netherlands, I don’t speak Dutch. I would love to get my audiobooks in English but I can’t find the place to change the setting. How to I get English speaking content? I tried changing the language in my IPhone but it also doesn’t work.

[New user]

I live in the Netherlands but I don't speak Dutch, can I access to the same audiobooks but in English?

[5ek68ptqz72ll342sgz4]

I do live in Belgium but the audiobooks i get presented are or in french or in dutch. I can´t select the english versions of the same book.

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

[fatum]

I'm from Belgium so the audiobooks appear in Dutch and French. However I always read and listen to books in English.
Is there a way to change the default language so that I see English audiobooks?
Or is there a way to see them besides the other language?

Edit: extra info: premium subscriber, language of the app is set to English

[Novy · Accepted solution]

Hey there @fatum,

Thanks for reaching out. 

It's currently not possible to change the language of Audiobook suggestions. However, other users also think this would be a good idea. If you'd like to see this in the future, you can add your vote here.

Hope this sheds some light on the matter. The Community will be here if anything else comes up.

Cheers!

[fatum]

Thanks for the explanation. As suggested I clicked the vote button, thanks for including the link.