diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/actions-bar/component.jsx b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/actions-bar/component.jsx
index 486636b891f48b0a4573f24906ec327602774797..49f6a2570b709c3bd3e86a3ba2c3566845bed88d 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/actions-bar/component.jsx
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/actions-bar/component.jsx
@@ -157,10 +157,7 @@ class ActionsBar extends PureComponent {
     };
 
     AudioManager.openTranslatorChannel(language.extension, onInternalConnected).then(() => {
-      if( language.extension > 0 ) {
-        Service.muteMicrophone();
-      }
-      if( !this.state.translatorLanguage && !AudioManager.isTranslatorMuted() ) {
+      if (language.extension > 0 && !this.state.translatorLanguage && !AudioManager.isTranslatorMuted()) {
         this.handleMuteTranslator()
       }
       this.setState({translatorLanguage : language})
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/services/audio-manager/index.js b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/services/audio-manager/index.js
index 41adbc9ba8f4841a4487173cafabe9bf706391b6..41277a6e3e388c03a871bbfded3d640d3426fb0b 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/services/audio-manager/index.js
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/services/audio-manager/index.js
@@ -788,9 +788,6 @@ class AudioManager {
           if (onConnected) {
             onConnected(message);
           }
-          if(this.isTranslatorMuted){
-            this.muteTranslator('mute-button')
-          }
           return new Promise(function () {})
         }.bind(this);
 
diff --git a/fairblue-changelog.md b/fairblue-changelog.md
index 59a11abbb158e6dd2f73eec1c58c71bf928627b9..692db83f3837aa53ad27fd178d004992aa551eb7 100644
--- a/fairblue-changelog.md
+++ b/fairblue-changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog of Fairblue development
 ## Next
+* Fix bug, where translator is muted if they change translation language
 ## 21022021
 * we disabled some audio preprocessing of the browser, it seems some of this is going nuts when there are multiple streams
 * the input device used in the echo test is now made sure to be used as the translator microphone