Start a LINE group with your caregiver and invite PlumiBot into it, then type !lang add id for Indonesian, !lang add vi for Vietnamese, !lang add tl for Filipino or !lang add th for Thai. From then on each of you writes in your own language and the other reads it in theirs, in the same chat. Free covers about 300 text messages a month. A translation can still be wrong, so check anything about medicine with a person.
LINE runs free interpreter accounts, but every one it documents pairs Japanese with one other language, so none of them helps a household that writes Chinese and reads Indonesian. OpenChat has translation built in, but an ordinary group chat does not. What LINE's own accounts can do.
Start a new group just for the care, even if there are only two of you. A bot can't join a chat between two people, only a group. And PlumiBot translates every message in a chat it is in, so your family's usual group would spend the allowance on talk your caregiver doesn't need.
Add PlumiBot as a LINE friend, then invite it into the group the same way you would invite a person. A new group starts with English and Traditional Chinese switched on. From there:
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!lang add id, !lang add vi, !lang add tl or !lang add th. Ask them first, since many people read more than one. There are 126 to choose from.!lang remove en if no one in the group reads English. Every language uses up some of the allowance.!setlang id, with the code of their own language. The bot's menus and replies then reach them in that language, while everyone else keeps their own setting.After that nobody has to do anything. Each message stays as it was written, and its translation follows it in the chat.
Do you employ more than one person, or have a relative who reads English? The same group can carry every language at once: how that works.
We put the ordinary sentences of a care day through PlumiBot while writing this guide: bathing, diapers, a wound that has to stay dry, blood in the stool, a blood sugar reading, pay day. None was refused and each one made sense. Two kinds of mistake did show up, and you should expect both.
Everything posted in the group, because it has to read a message to translate it. So tell your caregiver it is there and what it does. A chat keeps only its most recent 200 messages, and a daily sweep deletes anything that has turned 7 days old. Each message passes through OpenRouter to an AI model, and endpoints that retain text for training are excluded. A care chat is still full of health details, so keep ID, health insurance and bank numbers out of it. Read the privacy policy.
The Free plan is 105,000 tokens a month, roughly 300 text messages for a two-language group, or about 10 a day. It is text only, so voice notes and photos aren't read. When the allowance runs out the bot says so, and translation comes back on the 1st.
Group Pro is NT$200 ($6.14) a month for about 34,000 text messages, shared by everyone in up to 5 of your groups, so none of it comes out of your caregiver's own allowance. It adds voice notes, at about 500 tokens for a few seconds and about 4,000 for a minute, and photos, at 3,000–8,500 each. To start it, type !upgrade in the group. See pricing.
Once PlumiBot is in the group for translation, a few other commands turn out to be the ones people use every week. Type them in any chat the bot is in:
Name a song and PlumiBot finds the lyrics, then writes how every line is pronounced underneath it — pinyin for Mandarin, romanized Korean, Jyutping for Cantonese, romaji for Japanese. !sing meaning then tells you what the song is about.
Type a flight number, or two cities and the airline — in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Thai — and see where the plane is on its route. Each card has a Follow live link anyone can open without the app, plus free buttons to send it to a group or share it as a short video. Gates, terminals and times appear for flights to and from Taiwan; elsewhere you get the map, and the aircraft once it's in the air.
Ordering drinks or lunch for a mixed group? Everyone types what they want in their own language, and PlumiBot writes the whole order up as one receipt in the language you pick — matching orders counted together, each person's name beside theirs. Send it on to the shop's chat, or save it as a picture.
Been away for a day? PlumiBot sums up what the group said, up to seven days back — written in your own language, whatever language each message was in. Add dm to read it privately.
Token figures are typical. They come out of your plan's monthly allowance — the Free plan's is 105,000, about 300 text messages. See pricing
Add PlumiBot to LINE and run your first translation in under 30 seconds — no card required. Start free, upgrade whenever your group grows.
