I. Intro

If you need to communicate with members who speak a different language, you can translate their messages in Feishu Messenger into a set target language.

II. Steps

Set the target language

To find out what target languages are supported, see Languages Feishu can translate.

Before using this function, you need to set the default target language. 

Desktop app: Click your profile photo and go to Settings > General > Translate into. Select the default target language.

Mobile app: Tap your profile photo and go to Settings > General > Translation. In Translate into, select the default target language.

Translate text messages

Manual translation

When you receive a text message, you can manually translate the message into the target language you set.

Desktop: Hover over a message, click the ··· icon that appears to the right, and then clip Translate.  

Mobile: Touch and hold a message and then tap Translate. 

If you need to view the original text, you can click on the  此处是{{icon_more_outlined}}icon icon at the lower-right corner of the message bubble to display the original text.

Auto-translation

You can also enable automatic translation for a chat. All messages in the chat will be translated into the target language you set.

Desktop: Click the ··· icon in the upper-right corner of the a chat and go to Settings > Translation Assistant. Select Enable auto-translation.

Mobile: Tap the ··· icon in the upper-right corner of a chat and go to Translation Assistant. Turn on Enable auto-translation.

Translate audio messages

Audio message

You must first convert the audio message into text before you can translate it. 

Desktop: Hover over the audio message and click the ··· icon that appears. Click Convert to Text. Then, tap Translate from the same menu.

Mobile: Touch and hold a voice message and then tap Convert to Text. Then, tap Translate from the same menu.

Note: You can choose to automatically convert received voice messages into text. To learn more, see Send voice messages.

Audio and text message

Desktop: Hover over the message, click the ··· icon that appears, and then click Translate.

Mobile: Touch and hold the message, and then tap Translate.

III. FAQs