Translate a survey or questionnaire
Translate survey questions for new audiences, and translate open-ended answers back into one language for analysis.
Don't upload confidential documents on the free tier. Why?
Surveys go both ways. First you need the questionnaire in each respondent's language; then the open-ended answers come back in all of those languages and need reading in one. DropTranslate handles both. Translate the questionnaire from Word or Excel with its layout and answer options intact, and later drop the CSV or Excel export of the responses to get the free-text answers in your language, with respondent IDs and scores left as they are.
Research may need a formal translation process
Academic and clinical research often follows a formal translation process for questionnaires, such as independent translation and back-translation, and ethics committees may ask how translations were made. A machine translation can be one input to that process, not a replacement for it.
Good for
- Translating questionnaires and answer options for new audiences
- Translating open-ended responses back into one language for analysis
- Translating interview guides and consent forms as drafts
Before you translate
- Rating scales and answer options must mean the same thing in every language; check them carefully.
- Questions with idioms or culture-specific examples may need rewriting, not translating.
- For research, consider having a second person translate key questions back to check the meaning.
- Scores, IDs and timestamps in exports stay as they are.
Survey responses can contain personal data. On the free tier the text may be used to train the AI provider's models, so remove names, email addresses and other identifiers before uploading responses.
Questions
Can I translate the responses?
Yes. Export them as CSV or Excel and drop the file here. Text answers are translated; numbers, scores and IDs stay as they are.
Does it work with my survey tool?
If your tool can export or import CSV, Excel or Word, yes. Check the header row before re-importing, because headers are translated too.
How are credits counted?
One credit per 500 words of text. Numbers and empty cells don't count.