🌍 Languages

The interview bot is also instructed to adapt to the language of the conversation so far (you don’t need to do anything, this is a default instruction of the app).

So if you set the initial Greeting to be in English, but your respondent replies in French, Qualia will adapt (instantly, or very quickly) to French.

You can write your instruction in any language you want, but it will make things easier for Qualia if you write it in the same language the interview is likely to be conducted in: if your respondents all speak Arabic, it is best if you write your instruction in Arabic.

The language of the UI will change according to the respondent’s browser language. So if the browser is set to French, all the UI labelling (like Send on a button and the introductory texts like these will also be in French:

When detecting browser language, a very small language dropdown is shown at the top left of the screen, set to the browser language. If you want to change the language, you can click on the dropdown and select a different language and this will force the UI to be in that language and will also force the transcription to be in that language.

The special fields Description, Greeting and Farewell are set by you in the interview workspace. They are also translated in the same way as the ui elements.

This automatic detection of language works also for you and your browser while you are testing. If you want to test other languages, say French, you can select that language in the testing window:

If you add &lang=fr at the end of your interview link. E.g.: https://chat.qualiainterviews.com/?interview=careers-llama3&lang=fr, for French, this will force the UI to start in that language.

And this goes for any language, for example:

If you think the UI language for a particular text or button could be improved, let us know at hello@causalmap.app.