> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.userintuition.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> Configure how participants will experience the interview: moderator voice, format, language, recruiting method, and screener questions.

# Setup Interview

This step configures how participants will experience the interview. There are five sections, each collapsible.

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## Moderator Voice

Choose who will conduct the interview. Each voice is built for research conversations — warm, professional, and easy to sit with for twenty minutes.

To preview one, click the **play button** on its card. We recommend listening to each before you choose, since the voice sets the tone of every conversation in the study.

Click a card to select it. Your choice saves automatically.

<Note>
  In chat format, participants never hear the moderator, so the voice selection applies to voice and video only. The moderator's personality stays the same across all three.
</Note>

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## Interview Format

How participants will interact with the moderator.

| Format | What participants do | Credits per interview |
| - | - | - |
| **Chat** | Type their responses | 0.5 |
| **Voice** | Speak and hear the moderator | 1 |
| **Video** | Speak on camera, optionally sharing their screen | 2 |

**You choose the format; participants can't change it.** Whatever you set here applies to every interview in the study.

<Card title="Interview modes in depth" icon="microphone" href="/getting-started/interview-modes">
  Permissions, screen sharing, cost, and what each format is good for.
</Card>

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## Interview Language

Select the language for the interview. Eighty-two are available, plus auto-detect. English appears first in the selector, the remaining languages are alphabetical, and auto-detect appears last.

<Columns cols={3}>
  <div>
    English — `en`<br />
    Afrikaans — `af`<br />
    Albanian (Shqip) — `sq`<br />
    Amharic (አማርኛ) — `am`<br />
    Arabic (العربية) — `ar`<br />
    Armenian (Հայերեն) — `hy`<br />
    Assamese (অসমীয়া) — `as`<br />
    Azerbaijani (Azərbaycanca) — `az`<br />
    Basque (Euskara) — `eu`<br />
    Bengali (বাংলা) — `bn`<br />
    Bosnian (Bosanski) — `bs`<br />
    Bulgarian (Български) — `bg`<br />
    Burmese (မြန်မာ) — `my`<br />
    Cantonese (粵語) — `yue`<br />
    Catalan (Català) — `ca`<br />
    Croatian (Hrvatski) — `hr`<br />
    Czech (Čeština) — `cs`<br />
    Danish (Dansk) — `da`<br />
    Dutch (Nederlands) — `nl`<br />
    Estonian (Eesti) — `et`<br />
    Filipino — `fil`<br />
    Finnish (Suomi) — `fi`<br />
    French (Français) — `fr`<br />
    Galician (Galego) — `gl`<br />
    Georgian (ქართული) — `ka`<br />
    German (Deutsch) — `de`<br />
    Greek (Ελληνικά) — `el`<br />
    Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) — `gu`
  </div>

  <div>
    Hebrew (עברית) — `he`<br />
    Hindi (हिन्दी) — `hi`<br />
    Hungarian (Magyar) — `hu`<br />
    Icelandic (Íslenska) — `is`<br />
    Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) — `id`<br />
    Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ) — `iu`<br />
    Irish (Gaeilge) — `ga`<br />
    Italian (Italiano) — `it`<br />
    Japanese (日本語) — `ja`<br />
    Javanese (Basa Jawa) — `jv`<br />
    Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) — `kn`<br />
    Kazakh (Қазақша) — `kk`<br />
    Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) — `km`<br />
    Korean (한국어) — `ko`<br />
    Lao (ພາສາລາວ) — `lo`<br />
    Latvian (Latviešu) — `lv`<br />
    Lithuanian (Lietuvių) — `lt`<br />
    Macedonian (Македонски) — `mk`<br />
    Malay (Bahasa Melayu) — `ms`<br />
    Malayalam (മലയാളം) — `ml`<br />
    Maltese (Malti) — `mt`<br />
    Mandarin Chinese (中文) — `zh`<br />
    Marathi (मराठी) — `mr`<br />
    Mongolian (Монгол) — `mn`<br />
    Nepali (नेपाली) — `ne`<br />
    Norwegian Bokmål (Norsk bokmål) — `nb`<br />
    Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) — `or`
  </div>

  <div>
    Pashto (پښتو) — `ps`<br />
    Persian (فارسی) — `fa`<br />
    Polish (Polski) — `pl`<br />
    Portuguese (Português) — `pt`<br />
    Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) — `pa`<br />
    Romanian (Română) — `ro`<br />
    Russian (Русский) — `ru`<br />
    Serbian (Српски) — `sr`<br />
    Sinhala (සිංහල) — `si`<br />
    Slovak (Slovenčina) — `sk`<br />
    Slovenian (Slovenščina) — `sl`<br />
    Somali (Soomaali) — `so`<br />
    Spanish (Español) — `es`<br />
    Sundanese (Basa Sunda) — `su`<br />
    Swahili (Kiswahili) — `sw`<br />
    Swedish (Svenska) — `sv`<br />
    Tamil (தமிழ்) — `ta`<br />
    Telugu (తెలుగు) — `te`<br />
    Thai (ไทย) — `th`<br />
    Turkish (Türkçe) — `tr`<br />
    Ukrainian (Українська) — `uk`<br />
    Urdu (اردو) — `ur`<br />
    Uzbek (Oʻzbekcha) — `uz`<br />
    Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) — `vi`<br />
    Welsh (Cymraeg) — `cy`<br />
    Wu Chinese (吴语) — `wuu`<br />
    Zulu (isiZulu) — `zu`
  </div>
</Columns>

### Pick a specific language wherever you can

**Setting a specific language localizes the whole participant experience**, not just the conversation: the screener questions and the moderator's opening line are all translated into it before the participant sees them.

**Auto-detect (Ask Participant)** doesn't do that. It lets each participant choose their language once the conversation starts — but the screener questions stay in **English**, and so does the moderator's opening line. A participant who came for a Spanish interview meets an English screener and an English greeting first, which is a confusing way to begin.

<Warning>
  If you know most interviews will be in one language, **set that language** rather than using auto-detect. Reserve auto-detect for genuinely mixed audiences where you can't predict the language and are willing to accept an English screener.
</Warning>

For multi-market research where each market matters, running one study per language gives every participant a fully localized experience — and gives you results you can compare market by market.

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## Recruiting Method

How you'll reach participants. Two options:

| Option | Meaning |
| - | - |
| **BYOP** | Bring your own participants and manage recruiting yourself |
| **Panel** | Recruit participants from our network of quality respondents |

**This choice determines your invite options after launch.** BYOP studies get a study link, email invites, and an embed code. Panel studies get panel recruiting and niche audience requests.

<Card title="Recruiting participants" icon="users" href="/recruiting/overview">
  How to choose between them, and what each costs.
</Card>

***

## Screener Questions and Targeting Attributes

Qualify participants before they reach the interview.

### Standard attributes

Six common attributes are one click away as pills: **Age**, **Gender**, **Zip Code**, **Region**, **Household Income**, and **Ethnicity**. Click one to add it to your screener.

For anything beyond those, click **Advanced** to browse the full catalog of standard qualifications.

### Custom questions

Click **Add Question** to write your own. Each custom question is either **Single Select** (participants pick one option) or **Multiple Select** (they pick several).

For each answer option you can mark whether it **disqualifies** the participant — anyone choosing it won't proceed to the interview.

Questions can be reordered by dragging, and collapsed while you work on others.

### Randomizing Answer Options

When editing a multiple-choice screener question, use the **Randomize options** checkbox next to the question type to shuffle the order of that question's answer options.

* It's available on single-select and multiple-select questions.
* When enabled, participants see that question's answer options in a fresh random order each time they open the screener.
* Randomizing helps reduce **order bias**—the tendency to pick whichever option appears first—so your qualifying data better reflects genuine choices.
* Leave it unchecked to always show options in the order you wrote them. That's the better choice when the order is meaningful, such as ranked scales or ascending ranges.

<Note>
  Randomization changes only the order options are displayed. Which options qualify or disqualify a participant is unaffected.
</Note>

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## Proceeding to the Next Step

Review your selections and click **Save & Continue** to move to [Step 5: Test Conversation](/creating-a-study/test-conversation).

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## Frequently Asked Questions

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Can I add screener questions later?">
    Yes — either here, or by asking Charles in Step 2. He'll use standard qualifications where they fit.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What if a participant's device doesn't support the format?">
    They'll see an error. Voice and video need a working microphone, and video needs a camera. Chat works anywhere.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where do I set participant rewards?">
    After launch, from the dashboard **Actions** menu. See [Study actions](/managing-your-study/study-actions).
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>


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