Whenever a user sends a message in a language that is not listed as your operator language, Lokalise automatically translates it and displays the translated version in the conversation notes:

Type your response in the conversation notes, starting with the exclamation sign (!) followed by the actual message, for example: !Hello, how are you doing?. Lokalise will translate this text into the conversation language and send it back to the user:

On the right side of the screen, click Customize and add the Lokalise app:

You can type responses right in the Lokalise Inbox app, and these responses will get translated into the conversation language and sent back to the user:

Neural networks that we are using to perform machine translation sometimes fail to understand the language of the message (for example, if it contains typos or content in several languages).

You can override chat language by clicking Change chat language in the Inbox app:

Alternatively, you can type the !lang command in the conversation notes, for example !lang de. You may need to refresh the page to see an new language in the sidebar widget if you have used the command.

Use the sidebar widget to pause or resume translations for a particular conversation:

While paused Lokalise Messages won't translate anything and after resuming would translate only new replies.

You may need to refresh the page to see a change reflected in the sidebar widget if you have used the !pause or !resume command.

!info — command shows the list of Lokalise Messages commands.

!lang code — change the language of the current conversation (supported codes). For example, to change the language to German type !lang de.

!pause — pause translations for the current conversation.
!resume — resume previously paused translations in the current conversation. Only new messages will be translated.

!summarize — command would translate all previous message exchanges. It’s possible to limit the number of messages like this: !summarize 5 (this command would translate the five most recent messages).

!dashboard — get a one-time link to Dashboard where you can configure non-translatable languages, add specific terminology to the glossary and check the usage limits.

Use the !summarize chat command to request translation of the previous public messages sent by consumer and agent.