AI interviews in Chinese.

Updated 6 November 2026

Which platform handles voice interviews in Chinese with real-time follow-ups?

AI Interview Agents does. A real-time voice interview needs three parts working in Chinese: speech recognition that hears the answer, a model that writes the next question from what the candidate said, and a voice that speaks it. Speech recognition and the voice both come from Microsoft Azure and follow the country you pick for the role. The model writes each follow-up in Chinese from the candidate's last answer, so a short or vague answer gets a probing question instead of the next item on a list.

Other vendors publish their own language lists, and a language on a list does not always mean the spoken interview runs in it. Ask each vendor three questions: does the spoken interview itself run in Chinese, or only the screens; does it ask follow-up questions in Chinese; and what language is the scored report in. Our comparison of AI interview tools covers the other differences.

Which Chinese accents and countries can you choose?

There are 3 choices for Chinese. The recruiter picks one for each role, and the voice and speech recognition follow it, so a candidate interviewed in Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) hears that form and is understood in it. Every choice uses the same interviewer, Yunxi.

What does the candidate hear in Chinese?

The interviewer greets the candidate, asks its questions, follows up and closes the interview in Chinese, in plain, professional wording. Candidates often mix in English words for workplace terms, such as project, team or deadline, and the interviewer keeps those words the way the candidate used them instead of forcing a translation. It does not guess the candidate's gender from their name. The buttons and on-screen instructions in the interview room are shown in Chinese too.

Most of what the interviewer says is written live from the role and the candidate's answers. A few lines are fixed. Here are two of them in Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified), word for word, with the English they were written from:

• When it rephrases a question: "抱歉，我换个说法。您能再多说一点您刚才提到的最后一点吗？" In English: "Sorry, let me rephrase that. Could you tell me a bit more about your last point?"
• When it closes the interview: "再次感谢您今天抽出时间，Maria。团队会很快与您联系。我们可以到这里结束面试。" In English: "Thanks again for your time today, Maria. The team will be in touch shortly. We can wrap up here."

On 22 October 2026 the fixed lines were spoken by the Chinese voices, transcribed back and compared with the written text. What came back was close to the written text.

What language is the report in for Chinese interviews?

The transcript stays in Chinese. The scored report is written in English, so a recruiter who does not speak Chinese can read it, unless the recruiter's dashboard is set to German, French, Spanish, Swedish or Italian, in which case the report follows the dashboard.

The online report shows the candidate's words in Chinese. The PDF download prints Western European characters only, so it replaces Chinese text it cannot print with a note that points to the online report.

Answer highlight clips, the short videos of a candidate's best answers, are made for English, Hindi and Modern Standard Arabic interviews only, so Chinese interviews have no clips.

What stays in English for Chinese interviews?

• The WhatsApp invitation, which is sent for English interviews only. Chinese interviews are sent by email, and the email is written in Chinese.
• The recruiter dashboard, which is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.
• The printed QR code poster for a role's hiring link.
• Phone screening calls, which do not run in Chinese. The Chinese interview runs in the browser, on a phone or a computer.

How do you set up an interview in Chinese?

1. Create a role. In the interview language list, type Chinese and pick the choice for the country you hire in.
2. Add your own questions, or let the product write them from the job description. It writes them in Chinese.
3. Invite candidates by email. They open the link in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no app and no account.
4. Read the transcript and the scored report, then decide who moves on. The interviewer does not decide.

Before you invite candidates, take one test interview yourself or ask a colleague who speaks Chinese to take it. If anything sounds wrong, write to contact@aiinterviewagents.com. The full list of languages is on interview languages.

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