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Translate Telegram audio messages with AI (55 supported languages)

Ready for 3.0

by Derek Cheung ✓ · 13,913 views · created 2024-03-29 · Personal Productivity, Multimodal AI

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 10 nodes and runs on Telegram events. Along the way it connects Telegram, OpenAI Chat Model and OpenAI.

How it runs

Trigger: On Telegram events.

  1. Settings (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 2 fields: language_native, language_translate
  2. Input Error Handling (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields
  3. Telegram: work with file
  4. OpenAI: transcribe (audio)
  5. Auto-detect and translate (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: OpenAI Chat Model
  6. Text reply (Telegram): uses Telegram
  7. OpenAI: work with audio
  8. Audio reply (Telegram): send audio

Services it uses

TelegramOpenAI Chat ModelOpenAI

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (6)

From the author

Use case This workflow enables a Telegram bot that can: - Accept speech input in one of 55 supported languages - Automatically detect the language spoken and translate the speech to another language - Responds back with the translated speech output. This…

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