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Localisation overhaul

3 September 2026 · Uku Tammet

Agents can now run in more than one language, using content you write yourself instead of machine-translated English.

We first added languages to individual features: the agent's replies, then the chat interface, then vocabulary. Over time it became clear that a language touches nearly everything in an agent, so we have made it a proper setting instead. Every part of an agent's configuration can now have its own version per language, and English is used wherever no translation exists.

Setting the agent name for Finnish, with a note that untranslated fields fall back to English

How it works:

  • Enable the languages your organisation works in under Organisation settings. Each agent then chooses which of them to offer.
  • For each language, you can translate the agent's name, initial suggestions, workflows, actions, data fields, vocabulary, pronunciations and assets, including their files. Demo agents can also have a different voice, product access method and preview asset per language.
  • Anything you leave untranslated falls back to the English value, so you can start small and add translations over time.
  • Switching a language off for the organisation hides its content everywhere but keeps it. Switch it back on and the translations return.
  • Visitors of demo agents can pick a language on the start screen before the demo begins.
  • If your embed does not pass a locale, the visitor's browser language is used. An explicit locale still takes precedence, and a language the agent does not offer falls back to English.

See supported languages for the full list and for setting the locale through the SDK.

For AI agents: a clean Markdown version is available at /changelog/2026-09-03-localisation.md.

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