Translation Settings Configuration in Slack

Note: You can access this help article by clicking on Channel Translations Help from the Straker Translate app.

Translation Settings (for IBM users)

IBM users can use Translation Settings without adding the Straker Translate app as long as the users have been added to the correct workspace.

Guidelines:

• Only Admins can make the changes to Translation Settings.
• Non-logged-in users who have not added the Straker Translate app can be added to channels and their messages will be translated.
• For logged in users who make changes to the translation settings, notifications will be added for any changes made to the channel settings.
  
• For all other functions such as video file upload, Document MT users will need to add the Straker Translate App and use Direct Login.

Note: Only channel managers can configure channel translation, so other users do not need to take any action. If users have a strong need to translate channels into a specific language, they should contact the channel manager.

Translation Settings Configuration

Perform the following steps to enable automatic translation of your messages in your Slack channel.

1. Click Add channels, and then select Create a new channel.
   
   
   
2. Select a Workspace, and then click Next.
   
   
   
3. Enter the name of the channel you want to create, and then click Next.
   
   
   
4. Select Public – anyone to create a public channel, or select Private – Only specific people to create a private channel, and then click Create.
   
   
   
5. Select the users you want to add to the channel, and then click Add.
   
   
   
6. Click on the Straker Translate app in Slack, and then click Translation settings under the Translate Channels section.
   
   
   
7. Select the Channel Name of the channel that you created, select the Language(s) you want your messages in the channel to be translated to, and then click Create.
   
   
   Note: The following are the available languages supported:
   

   Afrikaans (af)	Guaraní (gn)	Oriya (or)
   Albanian (sq)	Gujarati (gu)	Pashto (ps)
   Amharic (am)	Haitian Creole French (ht)	Persian (fa)
   Arabic (ar)	Hebrew (iw)	Polish (pl)
   Armenian (hy)	Hindi (hi)	Portuguese (pt)
   Assamese (as)	Hungarian (hu)	Punjabi (pa)
   Basque (eu)	Icelandic (is)	Romanian (ro)
   Belarusian (be)	Indonesian (id)	Russian (ru)
   Bengali (bn)	Irish Gaelic (ga)	Sanskrit (sa)
   Bosnian (bs)	Italian (it)	Serbian (sr)
   Bulgarian (bg)	Japanese (ja)	Sesotho (st)
   Catalan (ca)	Javanese (jw)	Sinhala (si)
   Cebuano (Binisaya/Visayan) (ceb)	Kazakh (kk)	Slovak (sk)
   Chichewa (ny)	Khmer (km)	Slovenian (sl)
   Chinese Simplified (zh-CN)	Kirghiz (ky)	Somali (so)
   Chinese Traditional (zh-TW)	Korean (ko)	Spanish (es)
   Classical Greek (el)	Kyrgyz (ky)	Sundanese (su)
   Croatian (hr)	Lao (lo)	Swahili (sw)
   Czech (cs)	Latin (la)	Swedish (sv)
   Danish (da)	Latvian (lv)	Tagalog (tl)
   Dhivehi (dv)	Lithuanian (lt)	Tajik (tg)
   Dutch (nl)	Macedonian (mk)	Tamil (ta)
   English (en)	Malagasy (mg)	Thai (th)
   Esperanto (eo)	Malay (ms)	Turkish(tr)
   Estonian (et)	Malayalam (ml)	Ukrainian (uk)
   Finnish (fi)	Maltese (mt)	Urdu (ur)
   French (fr)	Maori (mi)	Uzbek (uz)
   French Canadian (fr-ca)	Marathi (mr)	Vietnamese (vi)
   Georgian (ka)	Mongolian (mn)	Welsh (cy)
   German (de)	Nepali (ne)	Zulu (zu)
   Greek (el)	Norwegian (no)

   
   
   
8. Your Slack channel is now created.
   

Important:

• • For public channels, the Straker Translate Bot will be automatically added.
  • To enable the translation of messages in private channels, make sure to add the Straker Translate Bot to the channel by entering the following command in the channel message box:
    /invite @Straker Translate.
    

    

     

Performing Direct MT in Translation Channels with No Configured Languages 

To perform Direct MT in a Translation Channel with no configured languages, you must tag the @Straker Translate Bot each time you perform the MT command.

Examples:

• @Straker Translate MT <source language> to <target language> <text to translate>
  
  
  
• @Straker Translate MT to <target language> <text to translate>