Multilingual Freddy Answers

Your Freddy Answers can now respond to your customer queries in 6 new global languages other than English - French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. 

How to setup Freddy Answers in different languages

Add and Enable languages

First, add and enable your primary and secondary languages by going to Settings > Languages in your account.


Your primary language can be the most common language understood and spoken by your customers, e.g., English. Your secondary languages can be the non-English speaking geo’s your business caters to, e.g., if your business serves the EU market, you can add one of the EU languages. Learn more about how to add languages here.

Note: Your Chat supports 30 plus languages but Freddy Answers can only work with the 7 languages at the moment.

Set up Freddy Answers in other languages

Now, Go to Marketing Automation > Chatbots > Manage Answers.

Learn more about how to set up Freddy Answers here


Select an existing answer you’d like to translate or create a New Answer. 



On the right side, you’ll be able to see the list of languages you’ve enabled and available for translation. 


Pick the desired language. for example, German and add the translated Bot content in German. 


Note: At present, you have to manually add the translated answers, there is no automatic translation. However, small talk can be handled by Freddy Answers in the customer’s language.


Once you’ve added the translated answers, you can preview the bot flow in the translated language.


You can find the answers you’ve added in different languages by using the Filter option from the Train your Bot and Answers pages.
Some pointers to note

  • If you’ve set up the follow-up action of your Freddy Answers to trigger a Custom Flow which is in a language not supported by Freddy Answers (apart from the 7 languages), the conversation will be handed over to an Agent directly.

  • If a customer initiates a conversation in a language other than those supported by the Freddy Answers, the conversation will be moved to the ‘New’ tab of the Team Inbox.

  • The language (7 languages supported by the Freddy Answers) that the customer asks their query and the browser locale should be the same for Freddy Answers to work seamlessly.

Learn more about Custom Flows here

Note: When you add new FAQs, modify, or translate FAQs in one of the 7 languages, it will be auto-synced to your Freddy Answers.



FAQs

Q: What should be my primary language for multilingual Freddy Answers to work?

A: You can have any one of these 7 supported languages as your primary language for Multilingual Freddy Answers to work. They are English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.