BabelBot dashboard setup and settings guide
Find each BabelBot setting in the dashboard and see what it changes in Discord.
You configure BabelBot in the dashboard. This page shows where each setting lives. Each card opens the full guide for that page.
๐ Open the dashboard
Sign in with Discord
Open the dashboard and sign in with your Discord account.
Choose your server
Select the server and click Manage. You need the Manage Server permission, and BabelBot must be in the server. If BabelBot is not there yet, follow Quick start.
You can also run /dashboard in your server. This command needs Manage Server too.
Share a settings page
Each settings page has a link without a server in it, for example dash.babelbot.app/server/settings/channel-rules. When someone opens the link, the dashboard asks which server to manage. Then it opens that page. Send these links to other admins. In these docs, select a dashboard path such as DashboardTranslationChannel rules to open it the same way.
Each setting has a short preview of how it looks in Discord, answers to common questions, and a link to its full guide. The preview follows your current choices. On a page with several settings, select How it works under a setting that is on to see them.
๐ Overview
Overview is the home page of each server. Turn off the Translations switch to stop automatic translation, bridges, flag reactions, and new voice chat sessions in the whole server. Overview also shows your plan and usage, recent activity, and warnings about missing Discord permissions. See Overview.
The bottom of the sidebar shows your plan and how many AI translations the server used. Select it to open Billing.
๐ฌ Translation
The Translation page has the settings that most servers change first.
Target languages
Automatic translation
Reply mode
Channel rules
๐ Bridges
Bridges
Cross-server
๐๏ธ Voice chat and audit logs
Voice chat
Audit logs
โ๏ธ Settings
Select Settings at the bottom of the server pages. The sidebar then shows the settings pages. Select Back to server to go back.
Features
Flag reactions
Custom words
Media translation
Conversation mode
Filters
Skip languages
Ignored users
BabelBot ignores messages from other bots, except followed announcements. The dashboard option for specific bots is hidden while we fix it.
Bot identity
Nickname
Profile
Billing, backups and danger zone
Billing
Backups
Danger zone
Run /upgrade in Discord to see your plan and get a link to Billing.
๐ง AI assistant
โญ Popular settings
๐ Replace the original
BabelBot can repost each message as its translation, with the member's name and avatar, and then delete the original. Open DashboardTranslationReply mode and choose Replace the original. BabelBot needs Manage Webhooks and Manage Messages in the channel. Members cannot edit the repost, so tell them before you turn it on. See Replace the original.
๐จ๏ธ Conversation mode
BabelBot can wait a few seconds and translate several short messages from one member as one message. Open DashboardSettingsFeaturesConversation mode and choose a wait from 1 to 10 seconds. Each original message still counts toward usage. Pro See Conversation mode.
๐๏ธ Enable voice chat translation
Members can get live text translations of a voice call. Open DashboardVoice chat, turn on the Voice chat switch, and choose a Voice message style. Then a member joins a voice channel and runs /voice start. Ultra See Voice chat translation.
๐ ๏ธ Common problems
โก๏ธ Related pages
- ๐ Quick start: set up BabelBot for the first time.
- ๐๏ธ Playbooks: copy a setup for your type of server.
- ๐งฉ Commands: see what works in Discord chat.