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title: Setting up message translation | TimeBank Ireland
description: Change how message translation in messages works, and add your own translations for key words.
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---Setting up your community

# Setting up message translation

Change how message translation in messages works, and add your own translations for key words.

Open [Translation settings](/admin/translation-config) to control the existing translation service. Changes save as you make them.

Google Translate is the default engine. It uses your community’s configured Google key, or the platform Google key when one is available. AI translation is used only when your community enables AI and has its own usable AI key. The platform AI service is not a fallback for translation.

Context-aware translation and the glossary apply only to AI translation. They do not alter Google translations. Context can send earlier messages from the same conversation to the AI provider. Consider member privacy before enabling it. Choose the number of context messages, from 1 to 20.

To maintain the glossary, enable it, enter a source term and its preferred translation, choose the target language and add the entry. Delete an entry using its row’s delete control.

The translation switch controls availability for the community. Message translation also depends on the community’s message-translation feature. If translation is unavailable, check the selected provider’s key, configuration and quota. A provider failure should leave the original readable.

A member’s automatic content-translation preference displays existing cached translations in their selected target language. It does not automatically send every item in a feed to a paid provider.

[Go to this page](/admin/translation-config)

## More guides in this topic

[Changing your community name and contact details](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_community_details) [Adding your logo](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_logo_branding) [How do I switch features on and off?](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_switch_features) [Changing how a feature works](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_feature_settings) [Choosing your community's languages](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_languages) [Adding your terms and privacy policy](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_legal_documents) [Updating a legal document](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_legal_updates) [Choosing how new people can join](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_registration_policy) [Inviting people with invite codes](/help/admins/admin_setup/admin_invite_codes)

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