{"id":31,"date":"2026-07-27T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interaction-bot.com\/blog\/what-is-interaction-bot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:34:13","slug":"what-is-interaction-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interaction-bot.com\/blog\/what-is-interaction-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Interaction Bot? The Complete Guide to Discord’s Translation, TTS, and Engagement Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interaction Bot is a Discord bot that handles automatic translation, text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT), AI question answering, and moderation from a single web dashboard. Instead of running four or five separate bots for a multilingual community, a server admin adds one bot, configures it in a browser, and gets every communication and moderation feature under one login. It runs on over 55,000 servers serving more than 1.5 million members, with a free tier that covers the core features and a premium “ruby Premium” tier for power users.<\/p>\n

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Why One Bot Instead of Several<\/h2>\n

A typical multilingual Discord server that installs separate bots for translation, TTS, STT, and moderation ends up managing four sets of permissions, four command prefixes, four dashboards (or zero dashboards, if the bots are command-only), and four points of failure. A member who needs a translation might type \/translate<\/code> for one bot, then \/tts<\/code> for another, assuming both are online and neither has a conflicting permission setup.<\/p>\n

Interaction Bot collapses all of that into one invite, one permission set, and one web dashboard. For a server admin evaluating bots for the first time, that means less time spent on configuration and fewer things that can break. For members, it means one consistent experience: react with a flag to translate, hear a message read aloud in voice, or read a transcription of a voice channel, all from the same bot they already see in the member list.<\/p>\n

The comparison piece on this site covering the best free translation bots for Discord in 2025<\/a> found that most translation bots focus narrowly on translation and leave TTS, STT, and moderation to other tools. Interaction Bot was the only one that bundled them together behind a dashboard.<\/p>\n

Automatic Channel Translation<\/h2>\n

Channel translation is the set-it-and-forget-it mode. In the dashboard, an admin picks a channel and a target language (or several), and Interaction Bot monitors every message posted there. It auto-detects the source language and posts a translation into the target language, in-thread or in a linked channel, without any member needing to type a command.<\/p>\n

This is the right fit for announcement channels, where a server update needs to reach everyone regardless of what language they read, and for support channels, where questions arrive in whatever language the asker is most comfortable with. The setup guide for automatic translation<\/a> walks through the full configuration \u2014 picking channels, setting language pairs, and excluding roles like moderators whose messages do not need translating \u2014 in under five minutes.<\/p>\n

Flag Translation: One Emoji, Instant Translation<\/h2>\n

Flag translation is the feature that separates Interaction Bot from command-only translation bots. A member sees a message they cannot read, reacts with a flag emoji (\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 for Spanish, \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 for Japanese, \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea for German), and the bot replies with the translation. No \/translate<\/code> command, no copy-pasting, no leaving the channel.<\/p>\n

The translation appears as an ephemeral message visible only to the reactor by default, which keeps the channel clean. Admins can switch to public mode for channels where everyone benefits from seeing the translation, like an announcements channel. A cooldown setting prevents reaction spam on a single message.<\/p>\n

The full guide to flag translation<\/a> covers setup, visibility modes, and how flag translation complements channel translation for different use cases. Broadly: use channel translation for broadcast-style communication where every post should be read by everyone, and flag translation for peer-to-peer conversations where members want on-demand understanding.<\/p>\n

Roduz’s six-minute walkthrough of Interaction Bot setup shows flag translation in action, at about 2:45, on a live server:<\/p>\n