Universal translator

The universal translator is a function of computers that translates foreign languages into the native Transformer language.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

When Zarak contacted Cybertron, the Decepticons picked up his signal, originally in untranslated Nebulanese. Cyclonus (or Krunix) feared that the signal was an Autobot trap, but Scorponok noted that the sounds were not of Transformer make and ordered the computer's universal translator turned on. With this, the conversation between the Transformers and the Nebulans was mutually intelligible. Broken Glass!