Multilingual Qualitative Analysis in 100+ Languages
Interviews in Swahili, surveys in Spanish, focus groups in Mandarin — analyzed in the language your participants actually spoke, with transcription and translation built into the same workflow.
The multilingual bottleneck in qualitative research
Most qualitative tooling quietly assumes English. Working with anything else has traditionally meant a translate-everything-first pipeline: expensive, slow, and lossy — translation flattens idiom and connotation before analysis even begins, and the coded “quotes” are a translator’s words, not the participant’s. Multi-country studies multiply the problem by every language in the sample.
Evidano removes the forced choice. Analysis, transcription, and translation all support 100+ languages in one place, so the language decision becomes methodological — what best serves the research — rather than a constraint imposed by the software.
Four multilingual workflows, one tool
Analyze in the original language
Code Spanish interviews in Spanish, Arabic focus groups in Arabic. Themes, codebooks, and quotes are generated against the original text, so idiom and connotation survive — and every quote remains the participant’s actual words.
Transcribe multilingual audio first
Upload recordings in any of 100+ languages; Evidano transcribes with speaker separation and feeds the transcripts straight into analysis. No separate transcription vendor, no format juggling.
Translate where your audience needs it
Translate source documents or finished evidence between 100+ languages when co-authors, clients, or reviewers read a different language than your participants — without redoing the analysis.
Compare across language groups
Cross-segment analysis treats language or country as a lens: see where themes converge across your German and Japanese interviews and where they genuinely diverge, with source-linked quotes from each group.
Language-by-language detail lives on the dedicated hubs: per-language transcription pages and per-pair translation pages cover accents, dialect handling, and pair-specific quality notes.
Trusted in international published research
Evidano’s multilingual analysis is not a translation feature bolted onto an English tool — it is how researchers outside anglophone contexts actually use the product. Published work using Evidano has come from researchers at the University of Zambia (PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases), National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Volda University College in Norway, Sharjah Education Academy in the UAE, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia, the National University of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine, and the University of Costa Rica, among others — see the case studies and research spotlights for the studies themselves.
The same verification standard applies in every language: every theme links to clickable quotes in the source files, whatever script they are written in.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Evidano analyze qualitative data in languages other than English?
- Yes — Evidano analyzes data in 100+ languages. You can code interviews, focus groups, documents, and open-ended survey responses in the original language, without translating first, and the supporting quotes stay in the participants’ own words.
- Should I translate my data before thematic analysis, or analyze in the original language?
- Analyzing in the original language preserves idiom, connotation, and culturally specific meaning, so it is usually the better default; translate when your team or audience needs to read the evidence. Evidano supports both — and can produce translated reports from original-language analysis, so you do not have to choose one at the data stage.
- Does Evidano transcribe non-English audio and video?
- Yes. Transcription supports 100+ languages with speaker separation, so multilingual interview audio can go from recording to coded analysis in one workflow. Each supported language has its own transcription page with details.
- Can I compare themes across language groups?
- Yes. Cross-segment comparison works across any grouping, including language or country of the source data — so a study with, say, Spanish, French, and English interviews can compare how themes differ between those groups with quotes from each.
- Has Evidano been used in non-English published research?
- Yes. Researchers at institutions including the University of Zambia, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Volda University College in Norway, Sharjah Education Academy in the UAE, the National University of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine, and the University of Costa Rica have used Evidano in published work.
- What file types work for multilingual analysis?
- PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, and audio/video for transcription — up to 50+ files per analysis, around 150 pages per document. Mixed-language corpora within one project are supported.
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Upload interviews in any of 100+ languages and see the themes, codebook, and original-language quotes Evidano returns — free forever, no credit card.