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Equip’s AI interviews are not limited to English. A conversational interview can run entirely in the language you choose: the AI interviewer speaks, listens, and asks follow-ups in that language. One-way interviews work differently: you control which languages candidates may use in their responses, question by question.

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Supported Languages

For conversational interviews, the Interview Language dropdown offers 15 options:
Where a language has regional variants, pick the one closest to your candidate pool.
Candidates do not pick a language themselves; the AI conducts the session in the language you chose.

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Choosing a Language

Set the language before inviting candidates, and keep your topics and questions written in that same language. A mismatch between the interview language and the language of your questions can confuse both candidates and the AI.

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Conversational interviews

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Open the interview's settings

Go to the AI Interviews dashboard and click Settings on the conversational interview.
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Select an Interview Language

Pick a language from the Interview Language dropdown. If no language is selected, the interview runs in English (US).
Interview Language dropdown open on a conversational interview's settings page, set to English (US), listing English (US), English (India), English (UK), Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Spanish (Spain), with more below

The Interview Language dropdown on a conversational interview

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One-way interviews

One-way interviews have two language settings: the language your questions are written in, and the language candidates may respond in.

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Question Language (Multilingual Questions)

To offer the same question in multiple languages, enable Multilingual Questions on the template.
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Open the template's settings

Go to AI Interviews, open One-Way Templates, and click Settings on the template.
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Turn on Enable Multilingual Questions

In the Alternative Languages section, turn on Enable Multilingual Questions, then choose a default language and one or more additional languages.
Alternative Languages section of a one-way template's settings with Enable Multilingual Questions switched on, Default Language set to English, an Additional Languages picker, and Spanish added as a language chip

Alternative Languages on a one-way template, with English as the default and Spanish added

Enabling an additional language does not translate your questions automatically. You must write the question text in every language you enable, or candidates who pick that language see a blank or incomplete question.

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Response Language

Each question also has its own Response Language selector, offering around 100 languages, which controls the language candidates may answer in.
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Open the template itself

Go to AI Interviews, open One-Way Templates, and click the template, not its Settings, to open the template editor.
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Set the Response Language per question

On each question, add up to 3 languages in the Response Language field. The default is English.
Response Language selector open on Question 1 of a one-way template, with English and Spanish ticked and Any, French, German, Italian and Portuguese unticked

Response Language on a question, with English and Spanish selected

The candidate’s transcription is always in whichever language they spoke, but the AI evaluates their answer based on the response language you selected for that question.

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How the settings compare