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Post-fieldwork translation helps teams analyze interviews from several markets in one shared language. It can cover transcripts, question text, structured answers and subtitles while keeping participant recordings in the language originally spoken. When a study has a report language, each completed interview recorded in another language is translated into it automatically: its transcript, question text and subtitles come from the same translation, its form questions and written form answers are translated with it, and the original wording is kept. Choice answers are translated on request. The translated transcript is meant to read as clean speech: it usually leaves out hesitations, false starts and accidental repetitions while keeping each point, hedge and correction the participant makes.

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Decide whether it fits your study

Request translation when analysts need one working language across markets, or when stakeholders cannot read the fieldwork language. Keep the collected text in its original language when exact phrasing matters and the analysis team can work with it. Translated subtitle tracks may be enough when stakeholders only need to watch selected clips. Translated transcripts sit beside the original, which readers can switch to from an interview or show under any translated answer (see Interviews and transcripts), and a translated form answer keeps its original wording too. Agree which other material to translate with your Verso contact before proceeding. Identify translated quotations clearly, and use the recording when tone or phrasing matters.

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Choose the right translation stage

Languages and translation prepares participant-facing study content before or during fieldwork and keeps translated versions beside the main guide. Post-fieldwork translation applies to completed interview data for shared analysis. Ask your Verso contact which approach fits the stage and goals of your study.