PhonePick

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An answering service in 85 languages Every plan

Your customers do not all ring in English. PhonePick hears the language a caller is speaking and moves to it mid-call, then gets the job done in it: booked, quoted from your own prices, written down.

On every plan, from $75 a month. No contract, no setup fee.

What it does

Hears the language the caller speaks and moves to it mid-call. On every plan, nothing to set up.

It answers in your business's own language first — English, unless you choose another in Settings — and switches only when the caller does.

Nothing to set up

It is on every plan and works from the first call. There is no list of languages to tick and no second number for each one.

The whole call, not a phrasebook

Booking, quoting the prices you gave it and taking a message all happen in the caller's language, the same as in English. In 32 of them the call itself switches over; in the others it answers in the caller's language directly, and a reply can take a second or two longer.

You read it in English

Texts, emails and the app stay in English. On the Calls page, a call in another language can be read as it was spoken or in English.

The same rules in every language

It never claims to be a person and never makes up a price, in English or in anything else.

The list

All 85 languages it answers in

Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh and Yoruba

Setting it up

How to switch it on

  1. Settings → How it answers: pick the language your business answers in, or leave it on English.
  2. That is all. A caller who speaks another language is answered in it.
  3. Open a call on the Calls page to read what was said, as spoken or in English.

Being straight with you

What it will not do

Texts, emails and the app are in English only, so a confirmation text goes out in English even after a call in Spanish. A call it puts through to you arrives as it is — there is no interpreter on the line. If you serve a community in one language in particular, call (249) 496-5966 and try it in that language before you rely on it.

Before you ask

What people ask about it

Does it switch language in the middle of a call?

Yes. It answers in your business's own language and, if the caller speaks another, it moves to theirs mid-call and carries on in it.

Will my customer get texts in their language?

No. Texts, emails and the app are in English, whatever language the call was in.

Is it on every plan?

Yes, every plan, with nothing to switch on.

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Goes well with

Related features

Appointment booking by phoneCall transcripts and summariesWarm transfers and an on-call rotaEvery feature

The language question in the FAQRestaurantsClinics

Hear it before you decide

Call (249) 496-5966 and PhonePick answers its own phone, or walk round the real app on a sample business. Ten minutes to set up, and you keep your number.