Translate Telegram audio messages with AI (55 supported languages)

n8n template #2206

Summary

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 allows users to communicate across language barriers by simply speaking to the bot, which will handle the translation seamlessly. How does it work? Translation In the translation step the workflow converts the user's speech input to text and detects the language of the input text. If it's English, it will translate to French. If it's French, it will translate to English. To change the default translation languages, you can update the prompt in the

How to set it up

Open template #2206 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 3 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Telegram, OpenAI Chat Model, OpenAI. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the OpenAI Chat Model node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Translate Telegram audio messages with AI (55 supported languages)" (https://n8n.io/workflows/2206). It uses: Telegram, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, OpenAI. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

Telegram Basic LLM Chain OpenAI Chat Model OpenAI

Questions

Yes. Derek Cheung published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 12K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Telegram, OpenAI Chat Model, OpenAI. The other 1 node are built into n8n.

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