# Using Discourse and LibreTranslate without AI
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-and-libretranslate-without-ai/411844
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** translation, translator, ai, interface
**Created:** [September 7, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-and-libretranslate-without-ai/411844 "2026-09-07T21:15:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@happyhappy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/happyhappy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-and-libretranslate-without-ai/411844/1 "2026-09-07T21:15:47Z")
Our community does not wish to use AI, and we turned it off in our Discourse instance.
For translations we added LibreTranslate (LT) in a docker container, and it works well enough.
My question is:
Given the recent advances in adding AI Translations into the Discourse core, can we take advantage of this wiring to connect LT in this way? We would very much to benefit from the integration without adding AI.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-and-libretranslate-without-ai/411844/2 "2026-09-08T00:15:39Z")
There are 2 ways of translating content in Discourse. The #translator plugin and the #ai plugin.
The [Discourse Translator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-translator/32630) plugin supports LibreTranslate. The [AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-manual-and-automatic-with-discourse-ai/370969) plugin supports AI-powered translation, using LLMs like Gemini, for example.
> [@happyhappy](#):
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> Given the recent advances in adding AI Translations into the Discourse core, can we take advantage of this wiring to connect LT in this way? We would very much to benefit from the integration without adding AI.
What kind of “wiring” or integration do you want to see in the #translator plugin that you like in the #ai plugin?
Note that the #translator plugin is #end-of-life and won’t receive updates.
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### Author:  [@happyhappy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/happyhappy)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-and-libretranslate-without-ai/411844/3 "2026-09-08T15:03:41Z")
I can’t speak to the implementation details, but from a functional perspective it would be good to maintain libretranslate as a plug in translation option so topics and posts can be translated to the interface language. Obvious the AI features that auto translate without having to press a button would be nice, but are not must have’s for us.