The Best Discord Translator Bot in 2024 & How to Set It Up
- Discord has evolved beyond its gaming roots, becoming a hub for diverse communities where people of different nationalities come together. In these multilingual spaces, a translator bot can be essential.
- iTranslator stands out as the best translator bot on Discord due to its ease of use, robust features like auto-translation, manual translation, and multi-language support. It's a freemium bot, but its free version is highly capable for most users.
- Alternatives like Translator Bot, Interaction Bot, and JakeBot also offer solid features, but iTranslator's simplicity and reliability make it the top recommendation for most Discord servers.
Initially intended for gamers, Discord has now evolved into a full blown messaging app where entire communities can keep in touch and discuss whatever topic they’re passionate about; games, anime, movies, coding,, literally anything.
Naturally, you can assume that large communities tend to have people of different nationalities, and some of the users might not know English. There are also multiple servers that aim to learn or improve on a specific language. What all of them need is a translator bot. But which translator bot is the best one? Read on to find out!
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How Do Discord Bots Work?
Before we talk about the best translator bot, let’s talk about what a Discord bot is in general. Discord bots are automated scripts developed the multitude of Discord users to perform specific functions. They respond to their designated commands and can only perform the functions programmed in them. The amount of bots with diverse and feature-rich functions are why Discord is popular in the first place.
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The most common kind of bot is a music bot. It is usually called upon by a prefix, which is usually a special character like “!”, “/”, “.”, etc. When called upon, a user present in a voice channel can input a song name and request the bot to play it in a voice channel. The bot will then search for the name input by the user within its programmed database and then play the song, if it finds it.
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What is a Translator Bot?
A translator bot in Discord is a bot designed to translate languages within a Discord server. As mentioned earlier, there are many communities in Discord where the members have different nationalities. Not all members may be as fluent in English as everyone else, therefore, a translator bot can help them out by translating their messages for everyone else.
The Best Translator Bot on Discord — iTranslator
We tested out several bots, and found iTranslator to be the clear victor. Although a freemium bot (offering both free and premium versions), iTranslator has all the essentials you’ll need for a Discord bot; auto-translation, manual translation, translation in DMs (direct messages) and support for multiple languages. You can check out the full set of features in the bot’s documentation.
1. Adding iTranslator to your server
Before you can make use of iTranslator, you’ll obviously need to add it to your Discord server. Follow the steps below to do so:
- First, open up your web browser and open up the iTranslator website. Click on the Add to Discord button.
Click on the “Add to Discord” button - As soon as you click on the button, a new tab will open up and ask for your Discord login credentials. Login to Discord using your credentials or scan the QR code on the right using the Discord Mobile app.
Log in to your Discord account - Next, you will be asked whether you want to test the bot or add it to a server. Choose the Add to Server option.
Choose “Add to Server” - Now, you’ll need to choose the server where you would like to add the bot. Click on the drop-down to select your server and click on Continue.
Select your server and click on “Continue” - On the next page, you can check which permissions are going to be granted to the bot. Scroll down and click on Authorize.
Click on “Authorize” - Finally, you’ll see a message that iTranslator has been added to your server. Click on the button shown to open up your server, or open up your Discord app.
The iTranslator bot should now be present on your server
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2. Using the iTranslator bot for normal translations
Now, that the iTranslator bot is in your server, try it out by following the steps below:
- Open up your server on Discord and navigate to any text channel. Type “/translate” and select the first option that pops up on the suggestions list.
Click on the top-most option of the suggestions list - Now, type the text that needs to be translated in the “text” section and choose English in the “target_language” section.
Input the commands as shown - As soon as you finish typing in English in the “target_language” section, another option should become available to you from the suggestions list; the “source_language” option. Click on it.
Add the “source_language” option to your command - Finally, enter the language of the text you entered in the “text” section in the “source_language” section.
We know that the text we entered is in German, so we’ve selected German - Now, hit Enter or click on the Send button and see the magic for yourself!
This bot also points out who sent the translated message and the language it was translated from - As you can see, it is a pretty accurate translation.
The translations are pretty accurate - If you want to send a message in a foreign language using the bot, you can switch up the languages in the “source_language” and “target_language” sections and type the text in English.
You can use the bot to type out messages in foreign languages too
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3. Using the iTranslator bot for automated translations
Another great thing about the translator bot is that you can set it up to automatically translate messages and display them in English or any other language.
- On any text channel on your Discord server, type “/autotranslate“. From the suggestions list, scroll down until you see the option “/autotranslate create” and click on it.
Click on the “/autotranslate create” option - Some parameters should become available to you on your input box. The first will be the “name” option. You can put the name as anything you want really, so we’re putting it as “german-english“.
Put down anything in the “name” section - Then, we have the “source_channel” option. This is the text channel where the translator will receive the texts to be translated. Set it to your desired text channel.
Set the “source_channel” to your desired text channel - Next, we’ll have the “target_channel” option, which will designate the text channel where the translated texts will be output. You can choose the same channel as the “source_channel” or a different text channel.
You can choose the same text channel as “source_channel” or a different text channel - After the channels have been designated, it’s time to select the output language of the translated language under the “target_language” option.
Choose your desired output language with the “target_language” option - Now, you’ll need to add the “source_language” option. Position the cursor outside of the “target_language” option and it should show up on the top of the suggestions list automatically. Click on it to select it.
Select the “source_language” option - Lastly, select the language you’ll be translating using the “source_language” option.
Select the language to be translated - Finally, hit Enter or hit the Send button and test out your new translation mechanic!
This message will be shown in the channel if the command was successfully accepted - As you can see, it works perfectly fine!
The auto-translate feature is pretty handy
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Alternatives to iTranslator on Discord
iTranslator is pretty straightforward and its free version is more than good enough in most cases. However, if you’d like to keep your options open, we can list down some alternatives that caught our eye too.
1. Translator
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The Translator bot from nvu is a great alternative to iTranslator. With support for even more languages and offering the same features as iTranslator (auto-translation, DMs translation, manual translation, etc.), it is quite indeed a better option than iTranslator. However, it has a strict 5000 character limit and after that it requires a paid subscription of $10 per 20000 characters.
2. Interaction Bot
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The Interaction Bot is another bot that can go head to head against iTranslator. It has the same functionality as its rival, and in addition to auto-translation, you can also designate roles that are to be auto-translated. It also has text-to-speech. However, there is a set limit for how many roles and channels you can designate for auto-translation, which can only be exceeded with a premium subscription.
3. JakeBot
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JakeBot is a feature-rich translation bot that offers multiple features beside translation like roleplay, trivia, and wordclouds. That doesn’t diminish its translation ability; auto-translation with blacklist and whitelist functionalities and support for a wide range of languages. But, you can only set up auto-translation for 8 channels, and it can be quite overwhelming to use.
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Conclusion
Irrespective of what our top pick is, at the end of the day, the choice rests with you. You can try out any translation bot, even those not listed here; as long as they fulfill their designated function. Although, we heartily recommend using iTranslator due to its simplicity and quick functioning.
FAQs
Discord bots are automated programs within Discord, designed to perform functions of a specific nature. Examples include music bots which play music in voice channels, moderation bots which can help out in moderation etc.
A translator bot is a type of Discord bot that aims to translate messages from any language to another language of your choice. They are usually found in large servers where the members have different nationalities.
We found iTranslator to be the best translator bot on Discord. Nonetheless, some good alternatives to iTranslator are Translator, Interaction Bot and JakeBot.