Hire an AI language translator

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• The translation, in the tone and country you chose
• Whether it uses "tú", "usted" or "vos", and when to switch
• A pronunciation guide in English letters for spoken phrases
• A more natural spoken version beside the textbook version
• Notes on local words, false friends and culture
• A flag when a professional interpreter or certified translator is needed

How it does the job well

• Never translate word for word when the meaning would be lost.
• Do not present a translation as certified, legal or medical advice.
• Do not claim you heard or checked the user's speech.
• Say plainly when a phrase is hard to say or when a word is rare. Offer a simpler way to get the same job done.
• Never translate word-for-word when meaning would be lost. Idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and colloquialisms must be rendered by meaning, not by literal substitution. "It's raining cats and dogs" → "Está lloviendo a cántaros," not "Está lloviendo gatos y perros."
• Always flag formality level. Spanish has formal (usted) and informal (tú/vos) registers. Always indicate which is used and when to switch — the wrong register can cause offense or confusion.
• Never guess on medical or legal translations. When a translation involves symptoms, medications, dosages, rights, legal obligations, or emergency instructions, flag when professional interpretation is strongly recommended.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic output that ignores the user's details.
• Inventing facts, quotes or sources.
• Long answers when a short one was asked for.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You travel to a Spanish-speaking country and need phrases for a hotel, a restaurant or a pharmacy.

• Translation. Your text in the other language, with a pronunciation guide for spoken phrases.
• Register and region. The form of "you" used, the country it fits and a more natural spoken version.
• Cultural note. What is polite or risky in that country, with a tip.
• Professional help needed. A flag when a medical, legal or urgent text needs a qualified interpreter.
• Reverse phrases. Replies you might hear, what they mean and how to answer.

How the work is checked

• The output meets the stated length and format.
• Every fact comes from the user's material or is marked to check.
• Suggested changes explain why.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Kurt Vonnegut would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Confirm the request. It checks direction, setting, formality and country, and asks one short question if the meaning is unclear.
• Translate the meaning. It renders idioms and tone by meaning, picks the right verb form and checks gender agreement.
• Add how to say it. It adds a pronunciation guide in simple English letters for spoken phrases.
• Flag risks. It flags regional words, false friends, formal or informal forms and anything that could offend.
• Handle special cases. It gives emergency phrases first, then context, and says when a medical or legal text needs a professional.
• Offer the follow-up. It offers the reverse translation and a phrase set for your trip or task.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id language-translator only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/language-translator/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The text or phrase to translate, and the direction, English to Spanish or Spanish to English
• Where it will be used, such as Mexico, Spain or Argentina
• Who it is for and the setting, such as a hotel clerk, a client, a doctor or a friend
• Spoken or written
• Words or names that must stay as they are (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• The country and city, not just "Spanish".
• The person you are speaking to and how well you know them.
• Any name, brand or word that must not change.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: A long chat remembers your country, your tone and the phrases already covered, so each answer builds on the last.

Functions and deliverables

• Language translator agent: Translate between English and Spanish in the right tone, with local words, pronunciation and cultural notes. Get natural phrases, not word swaps.
  • The translation, in the tone and country you chose
  • Whether it uses "tú", "usted" or "vos", and when to switch
  • A pronunciation guide in English letters for spoken phrases
  • A more natural spoken version beside the textbook version
  • Notes on local words, false friends and culture
  • A flag when a professional interpreter or certified translator is needed
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• Text translator: Translate text into another language so it reads like a local wrote it. Keeps your terms, tone and formatting the same throughout.
  • A natural translation
  • Formatting and placeholders kept intact
  • Local units and dates
  • Translator notes on tricky choices
  Source: Burhan Sebin.
• Customer support message translator: Translate a customer message into English and get a reply draft in their language, with an English check. Works for pasted text or a Gorgias ticket.
  • The language and formality level of the message.
  • A clear English translation with notes on unclear phrases.
  • A reply draft in the customer's language.
  • An English version of that reply, so you can check it.
  Source: Composio.
• Article translator: Give it an article. Get a translation in your language, quick or polished with review, using consistent terms.
  • A translated article in a new file
  • A short analysis of tone and hard phrases (normal and refined modes)
  • A consistent term list
  • A reviewed, polished final version (refined mode)
  Source: Jim Liu.
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Kurt Vonnegut: Review plain writing or a story’s shape using Kurt Vonnegut’s recorded ideas. Cut clutter, trace changes in fortune and question the perfect plan.
  • Your problem worked on the way Kurt Vonnegut would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Kurt Vonnegut's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You travel to a Spanish-speaking country and need phrases for a hotel, a restaurant or a pharmacy.
• You write an email or message to a Spanish-speaking client, supplier or colleague.
• You are not sure if you should use "tú" or "usted" with someone.
• You read a sign, menu or short note in Spanish and want it explained, not only converted.

Limits to check before starting

• You need another language pair. Use the Translator.
• You have a long article to translate with consistent terms. Use the Article translator.
• You got a customer message in another language and need a reply. Use the Customer support message translator.
• You need a certified translation of a legal, immigration or medical document, or a live interpreter. Hire a qualified professional.
• You want to learn to write Spanish with corrections. Use the Spanish and Turkish writing tutor.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md after it.
• Paste your text. Say the direction, the country, who it is for and if it is spoken or written.
• Type "Translate this for a hotel clerk in Mexico" or "Give me ten restaurant phrases for Spain".
• Read the register note and the cultural note before you use the phrase. Ask for the reverse translation if you need to understand a reply.
• For anything medical, legal or urgent, check with a qualified interpreter. In an emergency, lead with the phrase and call local emergency services.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/language-translator for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.