One language for the room
An Arabic interface helps only if the whole audience wants Arabic. In a Beirut or Dubai room where half the audience thinks in English, one setting cannot serve both halves.
Yes for the interface, no for the content. Slido offers 40 interface languages and Arabic is one of them. But the host picks one language for the whole slido, and that setting only changes the text Slido itself generates. The question you typed and the answers the room types are never translated.
Checked 12 September 2026 against Slido's own help pages and a Slido support answer.
| Interface languages | 40, including Arabic. Hebrew and other right-to-left scripts appear in Slido's list as well. |
|---|---|
| Who picks it | The host. Slido's help page says the language you select affects the Slido interface in Present mode and on participants' devices. A host can set their own Host view language separately in profile settings. |
| What the setting covers | Slido-generated text only. In Slido's own words to a customer asking about multilingual sessions, the polls, quizzes and Q&A remain in whatever language the host or the participants used. |
| Translation of answers | None built in. Slido points people at browser translation, which runs on the reader's device and is outside the session. |
An Arabic interface helps only if the whole audience wants Arabic. In a Beirut or Dubai room where half the audience thinks in English, one setting cannot serve both halves.
Translating the buttons does not translate the question. If the host wrote it in English, the Arabic-first half of the room reads English anyway.
Open text arrives in whatever language each person used, sitting side by side on the results screen, and nothing reconciles them. The presenter translates out loud or the room half-follows.
Telling participants to use their browser's translate button moves the work onto them, per device, mid-session, on a page that is updating live.
Each participant picks their own on their own phone. One person reads and answers in Arabic while the person beside them uses English or French, in the same live session.
Arabic and Persian render right to left across the whole interface, including the presenter's screen, not just in the text box.
Text responses are translated inside the session, so the results screen reads as one set of answers instead of several piles nobody can compare.
Slido is a larger, older product with Webex and PowerPoint integrations, moderation tooling and an enterprise track record. If your room is monolingual, those matter more than anything on this page.
The host's choice is what reaches participants' devices. Slido lets a host set their own Host view language separately, which is a host setting, not a per-participant one.
No. Slido support's answer is that the language setting only translates Slido-generated text and that Q&A stays in the language it was written in.
No. It lists 32 participant languages and Arabic is not among them. The detail is here.
Eight interface languages: Arabic, English, Persian, French, Spanish, Russian, German and Portuguese, with Arabic and Persian rendered right to left.
Free for up to 30 participants a month. Paid plans start at $12 a month. Full pricing.
One session, one question, and every person reading it the way they read everything else.