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Listen automatically translates your entire interview guide and all participant responses in seconds into 120+ supported languages, so you can launch studies and analyze results across markets without waiting on manual translation work. Whether you’re testing concepts in Japan, running interviews in Brazil, or interviewing users in France, multilingual research is as fast and seamless as English-only studies.
Looking to have interview questions read aloud in participants’ language? See Multilingual Voice Interviewer for audio support across 42 languages

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Configure Your Study Language

Your Study Language determines:
  • The language you write your study in
  • The language your analysis report will be generated in
You can change it under the “Language” section at the top of your Discussion Guide. By default, this is set to English. You can toggle this off if your Study Language is set to a different language, and you would like the analysis to be run in that respective language.
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Turning On Translations

To make your study available in multiple languages:
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  1. In this same “Language” section, click Add translations and select from the drop down. Find the complete list of available languages here.
  2. Turn on Allow voice readout if you want participants to be able to hear the questions read aloud in their language. Each participant switches read-aloud on at the start of the interview. It is off by default.
  3. You can customize the voice of your interviewer across multiple languages
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When Translations are enabled:
  • Participants will automatically see your study in their browser’s default language (if available).
  • If their browser language isn’t supported, they’ll see the study language instead.

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Reviewing and Editing Translations

You have two ways to review translated content:
  • Preview in Platform: In the Discussion Guide view click the language icon in the upper-right corner to update the guide to be available in the respective languages.
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  • Export for Review: In the same upper right hand corner you can export a .csv or Word document of your discussion guide in each language for translation review or external proofreading.
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Analyzing Results Across Languages

When a participant completes your study in another language, their responses and transcripts are automatically translated back into your Study Language for analysis. This process happens instantly — no need to wait for manual translation or export files. That means:
  • You’ll see all individual responses in your Study Language (e.g., English) by default.
  • Your Reports, Responses Table, Question Analysis, Chat responses, Charts, and other key insights will show in your Study Language.
  • The original-language transcript is also stored— you can toggle between native language and Study Language in a participant’s transcript window, or export them from the Responses tab.
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FAQs

Which languages does Listen Labs support? Listen Labs currently supports translations across 120+ languages. See the complete list. Can I edit the translations or upload my own? Yes. In the Language section, click a translation language and use the Translation guidance field to specify preferred terms or paste an entire translated guide. The AI will apply your custom text instead of generating a translation.
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Can I manually set the default language instead of relying on the browser? Yes. Append the language code to your participant link using the lang= URL parameter, then send the specific links to the appropriate regions. For example, to default a study to Japanese, you would send this link:
Have any questions? Reach out to support@listenlabs.ai