Turn it on once
An admin enables voice chat translation in BabelBot settings and makes sure the server has at least two target languages configured.
Discord voice chat translation
Hear the room in every language your community speaks
BabelBot joins your Discord voice channel, listens to the conversation, and posts live transcripts and translations in the voice channel chat. Great for multilingual calls where not everyone is comfortable following fast spoken English.
Available on Ultra and Lifetime. Admins enable it in server settings.
What members experience
No more "what did they say?"
International game nights, study groups, and community calls stay inclusive when translations land right beside the conversation.
Built for how Discord works
Translations show up in the voice channel's text chat, so people in the call do not need a separate translator tab open.
You choose how it looks
Pick clean speaker-style messages or detailed embeds with the original line and translation side by side.
How it works in your server
Voice chat translation is meant to feel simple for members and controlled for admins. Turn it on once, then let people start sessions when they need it.
Join voice and start
A member joins a voice channel, runs /voice start, and picks which languages the room should hear.
Talk like normal
BabelBot listens in the call, transcribes eligible speakers, and posts translations in the voice channel's text chat.
Everyone can follow along
Members who are more comfortable reading than listening can keep up in real time without asking someone to repeat everything.
Choose how translations look
The same preview you see in dashboard settings: pick the style that fits your community. Clean speaker messages feel native in busy chats. Detailed embeds show the original line, detected language, and translation when clarity matters more than minimal UI.
Clean speaker messages
Post only the translated text using the speaker name and avatar.
SamAPP
Detailed embeds
Show the original transcript, detected language, and translated text in a BabelBot embed.
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Sam · English
Dutch
Built for real community calls
Multiple target languages
Starters pick two or more languages from your server list so one call can serve Dutch, English, Spanish, and more at once.
Clear listening notice
When a session starts, BabelBot posts that it is listening and translating eligible speakers, without storing raw audio.
Stays in the voice channel
Translations land in the voice channel text chat, so the thread of the call stays in one place.
When voice chat translation is the right fit
Use it when your community actually talks in voice: language exchange nights, international support calls, gaming squads with mixed first languages, or any room where someone is always asking for a repeat.
If you only need to translate recorded voice messages posted in text channels, that is voice note translation on paid plans. That is separate from live voice chat translation.
For automatic text, images, threads, and linked language channels, see the Discord translation bot overview.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is live translation for Discord voice calls. BabelBot joins your voice channel, listens to eligible speakers, turns speech into text, detects the language, and posts translations in that voice channel's text chat.
Bring live voice translation to your Discord server
Enable voice chat translation in your dashboard, then let members run /voice start from a voice channel.
Add BabelBot to DiscordUltra and Lifetime · Admin opt-in required · At least two target languages on the server