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Transcribing Discord meetings in more than one language

Set your team's main language as the spoken language, add your names and technical terms to the vocabulary, and let people speak naturally. Many teams don't meet in one language. They talk in Korean, Thai or Spanish, and say "deploy", "pull request" or "close PROJ-142" in English. Transcription works much better when it's told what to expect.

Set it up

  1. Run /settings language and choose the spoken language people mostly use, or auto-detect if it really varies from meeting to meeting. More than 50 languages are available.
  2. In the same command, choose the output language for the minutes and bot messages: English, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai or Indonesian.
  3. Run /settings vocabulary and add people's names, product names and your team's terms.

What to expect

  • The transcript stays in the language spoken. It isn't translated, so it remains a record of what people actually said.
  • The minutes are written in your output language. A meeting held mostly in Thai can have its minutes in English, so colleagues elsewhere can read them.
  • Names and acronyms are the hardest part. That's what the vocabulary is for. If something keeps coming out wrong, add it.

Choosing spoken language or auto-detect

Choose a specific language when your team mostly uses one. Choose auto-detect when different meetings use different main languages. If a transcript comes out in the wrong language, set the language explicitly and run /record reprocess with fresh:true while the audio is still kept.

See it working

The example minutes show the full format, and the Thai version comes from a meeting that mixes Thai and English technical terms. Start with getting started, or add Renga to Discord.