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BabelChat - Chat Translator

Real-time chat translation. The addon glosses 436 gaming terms in 14 languages inline — no account, no setup. Add the free companion app and whole sentences get translated too, in an overlay above WoW.
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v3.4.1

File nameBabelChat-v3.4.1.zip
Uploader
YumashYumash
Uploaded
Aug 26, 2026
Downloads
101
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953.3 KB
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File ID
8739136
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 12.1.0
  • 12.0.7
  • 12.0.5
  • 12.0.1

What's new

Fixed

  • The interface opened in Russian whatever language you had chosen. On Linux the GTK entry point never applied the saved language at all, so the control in Settings had no effect on anything; and on a first run, before there is a choice to apply, both frontends fell back to the Russian default — so a new player anywhere in the world read the setup wizard, the first thing they see, in a language they may not have. A saved choice is honoured now, and a first run takes its language from the operating system instead, falling back to Russian when the system names one the interface does not have. Windows is asked which language its interface is in, which is a different setting there from the one dates and numbers are formatted by, and the one that actually answers the question.
  • Changing the language left every open window in the old one. A widget keeps the string it was built with, so the new language reached nothing already on screen and took hold only at the next launch — which reads as a control that does nothing. The overlay relabels itself now, on both platforms, and on Windows so does the separate window the clipboard hotkey opens — created on demand and then kept, so it outlived the setting that was changed after it.
  • The tray menu was the worst of those, because you cannot close and reopen it. It is built once at startup, and on Linux it was never translated at all: five English items above a Russian overlay, whatever you had picked. It is translated now and follows a language change on both platforms — and its first entry is written from where the overlay actually is, so it no longer offers to hide a window that is already hidden.
  • The setup wizard forgot what you had typed when you changed its language. Showing it in a new language means building its pages again, and neither wizard kept what was already in the fields — an API key pasted on the second page, the WoW folder browsed for on the third, both silently gone because of the dropdown on the first. They carry across now.
  • Saving a new language leaves the settings window rebuilt rather than stale. Reopening it is the rebuild, so that one save closes it; any other save leaves it where it is, with its confirmation where you can read it.

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