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{{Quote|Why deactivate your translation disk? This is no time for us to start keeping secrets from one another.|[[Reza Linberk]] to [[Castor]].}}{{Ref/Reuse|L11}}

Translator disks use [[translation software]] to detect spoken words and then repeat them in another desired language so that individuals may speak that otherwise would be unable to.{{Ref/Novel|Id=LL11|LL|11}} These disks can be programmed with the capacity to understand and translate languages from multiple species.{{Ref/Novel|Id=R20|Ret|20}} The translated speech has an electronic undertone to it and can sound somewhat distorted.{{Ref/Reuse|L11}}{{Ref/Reuse|LL5}} Translation disks can be easily deactivated and reactivated and may be hung around a user's neck or secured high on one's breastplate.{{Ref/Reuse|L11}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=R7|Ret|7}}

Translation disks were used by the [[Covenant]] and after its downfall they continued to be employed by [[Jiralhanae]] in the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]]. Notably, [[Castor]], a leading [[dokab]] of the Keepers, kept one around his neck.{{Ref/Reuse|LL5}} [[Orsun]], his second-in-command, did likewise.{{Ref/Reuse|R20}} [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]] learned to speak English fluently so that he could communicate more naturally with his human allies, meaning that he didn't have to rely on a translation disk while speaking with [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Amalea Petrov]] on [[Netherop]]. Although [[Kaidon]] [[Ghe 'Talot]] offered to go in his place, he didn't speak the human languages and nor did he think to put a translation disk aboard his Phantom, meaning that 'Talot couldn't communicate with the humans.{{Ref/Novel|R7}}

*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' {{Mo}}