> ## 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. *** ## 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. 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. *** ## 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. Permissions, screen sharing, cost, and what each format is good for. *** ## Interview Language Select the language for the interview. Twenty-nine are available, plus auto-detect.
English
Arabic (العربية)
Bulgarian (Български)
Chinese (中文)
Croatian (Hrvatski)
Czech (Čeština)
Danish (Dansk)
Dutch (Nederlands)
Filipino
Finnish (Suomi)
French (Français)
German (Deutsch)
Greek (Ελληνικά)
Hindi (हिन्दी)
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
Italian (Italiano)
Japanese (日本語)
Korean (한국어)
Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Polish (Polski)
Portuguese (Português)
Romanian (Română)
Russian (Русский)
Slovak (Slovenčina)
Spanish (Español)
Swedish (Svenska)
Tamil (தமிழ்)
Turkish (Türkçe)
Ukrainian (Українська)
### 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. 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. 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. *** ## 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. How to choose between them, and what each costs. *** ## 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. Randomization changes only the order options are displayed. Which options qualify or disqualify a participant is unaffected. *** ## Proceeding to the Next Step Review your selections and click **Save & Continue** to move to [Step 5: Test Conversation](/creating-a-study/test-conversation). *** ## Frequently Asked Questions Yes — either here, or by asking Charles in Step 2. He'll use standard qualifications where they fit. They'll see an error. Voice and video need a working microphone, and video needs a camera. Chat works anywhere. After launch, from the dashboard **Actions** menu. See [Study actions](/managing-your-study/study-actions).