In another language
Understand the interviewer, answer in your own words
Being interviewed in a language you did not grow up in costs you twice: once to understand the question, once to build the answer. Trippi Cue takes the first cost off you — every line arrives in your language while the call runs — and writes the answer in whichever language you think fastest in.
Trippi Cue
ES → EN
As it was spoken
“¿Cómo medirías si ese cambio realmente funcionó?”
As you read it
“How would you measure whether that change actually worked?”
Suggested answer
One metric agreed before the change, measured two weeks after — and a guard metric to catch what the first one hides.
An illustration of the three lines, not a screenshot.
How the two languages work
One pair of buttons, and nothing else to set up.
Two buttons in the header
One says which language is being spoken, the other which one you read. Pick the same one twice and the translation stops — there is no settings page to find.
Translation is on out of the box
From the first minute, without switching anything on. Most people meet this feature by noticing that the line under the card is already readable.
The answer has its own language
The question stays as it was asked; the answer is written in the language you chose. You can be interviewed in German and think in Polish.
Switchable mid-call
68 languages in the picker, and changing one does not stop the session — the copilot keeps working while you switch.
Who this is for
Four situations where the language is the hard part.
Not one of them is about knowing less. They are all about the gap between what you can do and what you can say at speed in somebody else’s language.
Interviewing abroad
The job is in Berlin, Madrid or Warsaw and the first round is in the local language. You can do the work; the first ten minutes are the obstacle.
English as your second language
The interview is in English, your engineering is not. A question misheard once turns into an answer to something nobody asked.
An accent you have not tuned to yet
Fast Scottish English, an Indian-English hiring manager, a Brazilian interviewer switching between two languages. The line on screen settles what your ear did not.
A panel with two languages in it
Somebody asks in one language, somebody clarifies in another. Both arrive as text, in yours.
Honest about it
What the translation is, and what it is not.
This is a working line, not a subtitle track
The translated lines run under the cards to keep you in the conversation. If what you actually need is translated captions across a whole meeting, our other extension does that job properly — see Trippi.
Recognition can mishear a name
Product names, surnames and acronyms are where speech recognition fails first, in any language. The original line stays on screen next to the translation for exactly that reason.
An answer in your language still has to be said in theirs
Cue writes the answer where you can read it fastest. Saying it out loud in the interview language is the part that stays yours.
In the room
The language does not change the round.
A technical question in Spanish is still a technical question: the card answers it the same way, in the shape that round expects. Pick the room to see what that shape is.
Where the words go
The audio of the tab is recognised over a connection of its own and never reaches our servers. The recognised lines and the answer are kept for 30 days so a poor answer can be told from a poor question, and are then deleted. Nothing is used to train a model.
Where it runs
Google Meet, Zoom on the web and Microsoft Teams on the web — in a browser extension, not an application.
FAQ
About languages.
Which languages can it translate?+
68 in the picker, covering the languages hiring actually happens in — the European set, the major Asian ones, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi. The pair is chosen in the window, not in a settings page.
Can I read in one language and answer in another?+
That is the normal setup here: the call is recognised in the language it is spoken in, the lines are shown in yours, and the answer is written in whichever you picked.
Does translating slow the answers down?+
No. The lines and the answers travel separately — a card does not wait for a line to be translated, and a line does not wait for a card.
What if the interviewer switches language mid-sentence?+
Recognition follows the audio, so a switch is usually picked up within a line or two. A short mixed sentence can come out as a mixture; the original text is right there to check against.
Can I turn the translation off?+
Yes — set both language buttons to the same language. The lines then stay exactly as they were spoken.
Is this the same as Trippi?+
No. Trippi puts translated captions over the whole meeting and that is its entire job. In Cue the translation is the line under the answer, for the call you have to speak in.
By first language
What your own language carries into an English interview.
The difficulty is rarely vocabulary. It is the specific places where your first language and English disagree — and those places are different for each one.
Let the language stop being the reason.
Trippi Cue is in the Chrome Web Store. Add it, pick your two languages in the window, and click the icon when the call starts.