# Translate user entered comment to Spanish/English

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Tags:** actions
**Created:** [April 4, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189 "2025-04-04T17:01:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Kicenhower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@Kicenhower](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Kicenhower)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/1 "2025-04-04T17:01:16Z")

</div>

If you have added the comments feature to a component, how would you go about adding the option to translate the users comment to English/Spanish and return that text to the comment box, below original comment?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![fk1214](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/fk1214/32/71058_2.png) [@fk1214](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fk1214)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/2 "2025-04-04T17:37:32Z")

</div>

If you have a paid plan with access to Glide AI, you can try something like this:

- Add a user-specific **Text** column in your **Comments** table to store the translation

- Create a **Template** column with this format:

- Add an **If-Then-Else** column:

- Set your **Comments** component to display that ITE column as the comment text.

- Under the **Collection item actions** (when configuring the Comments component), add a **Translate** action:

You can get more info on the AI action here:

> **[Generate Text | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/automation/ai/generate-text)**
>
> Generate text from data in your app.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Kicenhower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@Kicenhower](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Kicenhower)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/3 "2025-04-04T17:48:40Z")

</div>

Thank you!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Ashton\_Pelzel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ashton_pelzel/32/78156_2.png) [@Ashton\_Pelzel](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ashton_Pelzel)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/4 "2025-04-29T04:17:23Z")

</div>

What about free plan?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![fk1214](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/fk1214/32/71058_2.png) [@fk1214](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fk1214)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/5 "2025-04-29T11:51:42Z")

</div>

I know a way for free AI that consumes zero updates but it is secret 👀

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Ashton\_Pelzel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ashton_pelzel/32/78156_2.png) [@Ashton\_Pelzel](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ashton_Pelzel)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/translate-user-entered-comment-to-spanish-english/81189/6 "2025-04-29T17:07:40Z")

</div>

I DON’T ADMIT TO NOT LOOKING 👀 👀