AI interviews in French.
Updated 6 November 2026
AI Interview Agents runs spoken first-round interviews in French. The AI interviewer, Henri, greets the candidate, asks questions and follows up on each answer in French, in real time, in the candidate's browser with no app to install. The transcript is kept in French, and a person on your team reads the scored report and decides.
This page lists the 4 choices for French, quotes two lines the interviewer says in French, and says what language the report is in and what stays in English.
Which platform handles voice interviews in French with real-time follow-ups?
AI Interview Agents does. A real-time voice interview needs three parts working in French: 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 French 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 French, or only the screens; does it ask follow-up questions in French; and what language is the scored report in. Our comparison of AI interview tools covers the other differences.
Which French accents and countries can you choose?
There are 4 choices for French. The recruiter picks one for each role, and the voice and speech recognition follow it, so a candidate interviewed in French (France) hears that form and is understood in it. Every choice uses the same interviewer, Henri.
| Choice | Interviewer | Name as spoken |
|---|---|---|
| French (Belgium) | Henri | Henri |
| French (Canada) | Henri | Henri |
| French (France) | Henri | Henri |
| French (Switzerland) | Henri | Henri |
What does the candidate hear in French?
The interviewer greets the candidate, asks its questions, follows up and closes the interview in French, 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 French 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 French (France), word for word, with the English they were written from:
- When it rephrases a question: "Désolé, laissez-moi reformuler cela. Pourriez-vous m'en dire un peu plus sur votre dernier point ?" In English: "Sorry, let me rephrase that. Could you tell me a bit more about your last point?"
- When it closes the interview: "Merci encore pour votre temps aujourd'hui, Maria. L'équipe vous contactera bientôt. Nous pouvons nous arrêter ici." 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 French 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 French interviews?
The transcript stays in French. The scored report is written in French when the recruiter's dashboard is set to French, in German, Spanish, Swedish or Italian when the dashboard is set to one of those, and in English otherwise.
The online report and the PDF download both show the candidate's words in French.
Answer highlight clips, the short videos of a candidate's best answers, are made for English, Hindi and Modern Standard Arabic interviews only, so French interviews have no clips.
What stays in English for French interviews?
- The WhatsApp invitation, which is sent for English interviews only. French interviews are sent by email, and the email is written in French.
- The career page and email previews in the recruiter dashboard. The rest of the dashboard, billing and integrations included, switches to French with the language switcher in the top bar.
- The printed QR code poster for a role's hiring link.
- Phone screening calls, which do not run in French. The French interview runs in the browser, on a phone or a computer.
How do you set up an interview in French?
- Create a role. In the interview language list, type French and pick the choice for the country you hire in.
- Add your own questions, or let the product write them from the job description. It writes them in French.
- Invite candidates by email. They open the link in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no app and no account.
- 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 French to take it. If anything sounds wrong, write to contact@aiinterviewagents.com. The full list of languages is on interview languages.
You can try it on the free plan. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.