diff --git a/changelog.d/fixes/12536-audio-translations-combo-resolution.md b/changelog.d/fixes/12536-audio-translations-combo-resolution.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f16b8f32e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/fixes/12536-audio-translations-combo-resolution.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- **fix(audio):** `/v1/audio/translations` now resolves combo names the way `/v1/audio/transcriptions` already does, so a combo that `GET /v1/models` advertises is fanned out to its targets instead of being rejected with `400 Invalid translation model: <combo>. Use format: provider/model`; literal `provider/model` ids and unknown bare names behave as before (#12536 — thanks @pacocartones)
diff --git a/src/app/api/v1/audio/translations/route.ts b/src/app/api/v1/audio/translations/route.ts
index f0c0acfa4e..65c45d0268 100644
--- a/src/app/api/v1/audio/translations/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/v1/audio/translations/route.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@ import {
 } from "@/app/api/v1/_shared/rateLimit";
 import { attachOmniRouteMetaToResponse } from "@/domain/omnirouteResponseMeta";
 import { generateRequestId } from "@/shared/utils/requestId";
+import { getComboByName, getCombos } from "@/lib/db/combos";
+import { getDatabaseSettings } from "@/lib/db/databaseSettings";
+import { handleComboChat } from "@omniroute/open-sse/services/combo.ts";
+import { log } from "@omniroute/open-sse/utils/logger.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Copy a multipart body, swapping only the `model` field. Combo fan-out needs one
+ * body per target, and the uploaded file part is reused as-is (a Blob can be read
+ * more than once).
+ */
+function withModel(formData: FormData, modelStr: string): FormData {
+  const next = new FormData();
+  for (const [key, value] of formData.entries()) {
+    if (key === "model") continue;
+    next.append(key, value as string | Blob);
+  }
+  next.set("model", modelStr);
+  return next;
+}
 
 /**
  * Handle CORS preflight
@@ -33,30 +52,14 @@ export async function OPTIONS() {
 }
 
 /**
- * POST /v1/audio/translations — translate audio to English text
- * OpenAI Whisper API compatible (multipart/form-data). Unlike
- * /v1/audio/transcriptions, output is always English regardless of the
- * source audio language.
+ * Translate with one concrete `provider/model` string. Split out of POST so combo
+ * fan-out can invoke it once per target.
  */
-export async function POST(request) {
-  let formData;
-  try {
-    formData = await request.formData();
-  } catch {
-    return errorResponse(HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid multipart form data");
-  }
-
-  const startTime = Date.now();
-
-  const model = formData.get("model");
-  if (!model) {
-    return errorResponse(HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST, "Missing model");
-  }
-
-  // Enforce API key policies (model restrictions + budget limits)
-  const policy = await enforceApiKeyPolicy(request, model as string);
-  if (policy.rejection) return policy.rejection;
-
+async function translateWithModel(
+  formData: FormData,
+  modelStr: string,
+  startTime: number
+): Promise<Response> {
   // Translation is served by the transcription-capable nodes (Whisper-style
   // endpoints expose both), plus general chat/responses gateways. Remote hosts are
   // opt-in (default OFF).
@@ -65,14 +68,11 @@ export async function POST(request) {
     "audio-transcriptions"
   );
 
-  const { provider, model: resolvedModel } = parseTranslationModel(
-    model as string,
-    dynamicProviders
-  );
+  const { provider, model: resolvedModel } = parseTranslationModel(modelStr, dynamicProviders);
   if (!provider) {
     return errorResponse(
       HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST,
-      `Invalid translation model: ${model}. Use format: provider/model`
+      `Invalid translation model: ${modelStr}. Use format: provider/model`
     );
   }
 
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ export async function POST(request) {
   let credentials = null;
   if (providerConfig && providerConfig.authType !== "none") {
     const credentialKey = providerConfig.credentialProviderId || provider;
+    // NOTE: the 2nd arg of this helper is `excludeConnectionId`, not "use this
+    // connection" — a combo target's connectionId must never be passed here.
     credentials = await getProviderCredentialsWithQuotaPreflight(credentialKey);
     if (!credentials) {
       return errorResponse(HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST, `No credentials for provider: ${provider}`);
@@ -113,3 +115,67 @@ export async function POST(request) {
   }
   return response;
 }
+
+/**
+ * POST /v1/audio/translations — translate audio to English text
+ * OpenAI Whisper API compatible (multipart/form-data). Unlike
+ * /v1/audio/transcriptions, output is always English regardless of the
+ * source audio language.
+ */
+export async function POST(request) {
+  let formData;
+  try {
+    formData = await request.formData();
+  } catch {
+    return errorResponse(HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST, "Invalid multipart form data");
+  }
+
+  const startTime = Date.now();
+
+  const model = formData.get("model");
+  if (!model) {
+    return errorResponse(HTTP_STATUS.BAD_REQUEST, "Missing model");
+  }
+  const modelStr = String(model);
+
+  // Enforce API key policies (model restrictions + budget limits)
+  const policy = await enforceApiKeyPolicy(request, modelStr);
+  if (policy.rejection) return policy.rejection;
+
+  // A bare name (no "/") may be a combo. /v1/models advertises combos, and chat,
+  // embeddings and the sibling /v1/audio/transcriptions all resolve them —
+  // resolving here too keeps the catalog honest and frees callers from hardcoding
+  // a provider's internal model id.
+  if (!modelStr.includes("/")) {
+    try {
+      const combo = await getComboByName(modelStr);
+      if (combo) {
+        let allCombos: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof getCombos>> = [];
+        try {
+          allCombos = await getCombos();
+        } catch {}
+        let settings = {};
+        try {
+          settings = getDatabaseSettings();
+        } catch {}
+
+        return handleComboChat({
+          body: { model: modelStr } as any,
+          combo: combo as any,
+          handleSingleModel: async (_reqBody: any, targetModelStr: string) =>
+            translateWithModel(withModel(formData, targetModelStr), targetModelStr, startTime),
+          isModelAvailable: undefined,
+          log,
+          settings,
+          allCombos: allCombos as any,
+          relayOptions: undefined,
+          signal: undefined,
+        } as any);
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      log.error("AUDIO", `Combo resolution failed for ${modelStr}: ${err}`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return translateWithModel(formData, modelStr, startTime);
+}
diff --git a/tests/unit/audio-translations-combo-resolution.test.ts b/tests/unit/audio-translations-combo-resolution.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aa4defe26a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/audio-translations-combo-resolution.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+// Regression test: /v1/audio/translations must resolve combo names.
+//
+// /v1/models advertises combos, and /v1/chat/completions, /v1/embeddings,
+// /v1/audio/transcriptions (#9134), /v1/audio/speech and /v1/videos/generations
+// (#10469) all resolve them — but the translation route still treated the model
+// string as a literal `provider/model` id only. A combo name therefore came back as
+// `400 Invalid translation model: <combo>. Use format: provider/model`, so any
+// client populating a model picker from /v1/models offered an option the endpoint
+// rejected, and callers had to hardcode the provider's internal model id.
+//
+// This asserts the combo is expanded to its target before dispatch (observed at the
+// upstream fetch: URL and multipart `model`), that a literal provider/model id still
+// dispatches directly, and that an unknown bare name keeps the format hint.
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+const TEST_DATA_DIR = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "omniroute-audio-translations-combo-"));
+process.env.DATA_DIR = TEST_DATA_DIR;
+
+const core = await import("../../src/lib/db/core.ts");
+const { createCombo } = await import("../../src/lib/db/combos.ts");
+const { createProviderNode } = await import("../../src/lib/db/providers.ts");
+const route = await import("../../src/app/api/v1/audio/translations/route.ts");
+
+const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+
+test.after(() => {
+  globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  core.resetDbInstance();
+  fs.rmSync(TEST_DATA_DIR, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 100 });
+});
+
+/** Minimal but structurally valid WAV so nothing rejects the upload shape. */
+function makeWav(): Blob {
+  const dataLen = 1600;
+  const b = Buffer.alloc(44 + dataLen);
+  b.write("RIFF", 0, "ascii");
+  b.writeUInt32LE(36 + dataLen, 4);
+  b.write("WAVE", 8, "ascii");
+  b.write("fmt ", 12, "ascii");
+  b.writeUInt32LE(16, 16);
+  b.writeUInt16LE(1, 20);
+  b.writeUInt16LE(1, 22);
+  b.writeUInt32LE(16000, 24);
+  b.writeUInt32LE(32000, 28);
+  b.writeUInt16LE(2, 32);
+  b.writeUInt16LE(16, 34);
+  b.write("data", 36, "ascii");
+  b.writeUInt32LE(dataLen, 40);
+  return new Blob([b], { type: "audio/wav" });
+}
+
+function translationRequest(model: string) {
+  const fd = new FormData();
+  fd.set("model", model);
+  fd.set("file", makeWav(), "t.wav");
+  return new Request("http://localhost/v1/audio/translations", { method: "POST", body: fd });
+}
+
+/** Capture every upstream call: URL plus the decoded multipart body the handler built. */
+function captureUpstream(): Array<{ url: string; body: string }> {
+  const calls: Array<{ url: string; body: string }> = [];
+  globalThis.fetch = (async (url: RequestInfo | URL, init: RequestInit = {}) => {
+    calls.push({
+      url: String(url),
+      body: new TextDecoder().decode(init.body as Uint8Array),
+    });
+    return new Response(JSON.stringify({ text: "ok" }), {
+      status: 200,
+      headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
+    });
+  }) as typeof fetch;
+  return calls;
+}
+
+test.before(async () => {
+  await createProviderNode({
+    id: "openai-compatible-audio-translations-test",
+    type: "openai-compatible",
+    name: "Local STT",
+    prefix: "localstt",
+    apiType: "audio-transcriptions",
+    baseUrl: "http://localhost:9000/v1",
+  } as Parameters<typeof createProviderNode>[0]);
+
+  await createCombo({
+    name: "traducao",
+    strategy: "priority",
+    models: [{ provider: "localstt", model: "whisper-1" }],
+  } as Parameters<typeof createCombo>[0]);
+});
+
+test("a combo name is expanded to its target instead of being rejected", async () => {
+  const calls = captureUpstream();
+
+  const res = await route.POST(translationRequest("traducao"));
+  const body = await res.text();
+
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200, `combo name must not be rejected — got: ${body}`);
+  assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(body), { text: "ok" });
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 1, `expected exactly one upstream call, got ${calls.length}`);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].url, "http://localhost:9000/v1/audio/translations");
+  assert.match(calls[0].body, /name="model"\r\n\r\nwhisper-1\r\n/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(calls[0].body, /name="model"\r\n\r\ntraducao\r\n/);
+});
+
+test("a literal provider/model id still dispatches directly", async () => {
+  const calls = captureUpstream();
+
+  const res = await route.POST(translationRequest("localstt/whisper-1"));
+
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].url, "http://localhost:9000/v1/audio/translations");
+  assert.match(calls[0].body, /name="model"\r\n\r\nwhisper-1\r\n/);
+});
+
+test("an unknown bare name is still rejected with the format hint", async () => {
+  const calls = captureUpstream();
+
+  const res = await route.POST(translationRequest("definitely-not-a-combo-or-model"));
+  const body = await res.text();
+
+  assert.equal(res.status, 400);
+  assert.match(body, /Invalid translation model/);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 0);
+});