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See which AI interview tools interview candidates in Hindi, and how Berri MasterMind supports interviews in all regional Indian languages.
Several AI interview tools now support interviews in Hindi, and Berri MasterMind conducts first-round interviews in all 22 scheduled Indian languages, including Hindi, from start to finish. An AI interviewer conversing with candidates in Hindi and other regional Indian languages during the interview and scoring candidate answers against a consistent rubric is important for talent acquisition teams hiring at volume in India.
This blog covers why it matters for AI interview platforms to support interviews in Hindi and other regional languages, vendors that offer this capability, how Berri MasterMind conducts these interviews, and things to consider in a demo before you make a buying decision.
Why Do AI Interview Tools Need to Support Hindi and Other Indian Languages?
AI interview tools need to support Hindi and other Indian languages because, in high-volume hiring in India, an English-only first round often measures a candidate’s English speaking ability rather than their ability to do the job. According to the Language Atlas of India 2011, 43.63% of Indians speak Hindi as their mother tongue, while only about 0.02% speak English as theirs. Most of the rest grew up speaking Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil or another regional language.
Many of the roles that companies fill in large numbers every month, for example customer support for regional markets, retail store staff and manufacturing operators, involve speaking Hindi or another regional Indian language every day. An experienced store supervisor who struggles to answer in English can fail the interview even though she would do the job well. Interviewing candidates in their mother tongue instead lets the recruitment team assess their role fit.
English should stay the interview language when the job itself requires it, for example a support role that serves international customers, because English is part of the skill being tested. Once a team decides which roles to interview in candidates’ mother tongue, the next step is knowing what real language support looks like in an AI interview platform.
What Does Real Indian Language Support Look Like in an AI Interview Platform?
An AI interview platform truly supports Hindi or any other Indian language when the candidate can take the whole interview in that language. The AI interviewer asks questions and follow-ups in that language, understands the candidate’s answers and scores them on the same rubric used for every candidate in the role. If the AI interviewer can’t follow up on these answers, or scores them on a looser rubric, recruiters end up with results they can’t compare with the rest of the candidate pool.
Some platforms translate their buttons and instructions into Hindi or other regional languages while the interview itself still runs in English. This helps candidates find their way around the platform, but they are still assessed in English. Knowing the difference makes it easier to see which AI interview tools support these languages in the interview itself.
Which AI Interview Tools Support Interviews in Hindi?
AI interview tools that support interviews in Hindi include Berri MasterMind and, based on publicly available information, HireVue, iMocha’s AI interviewer Tara and Hyring.
1. Berri MasterMind
Berri MasterMind conducts structured, conversational first-round interviews in all 22 scheduled Indian languages, including Hindi, among 140+ languages in total, and scores every candidate against the same written rubric for the role. During the interview, the AI interviewer asks questions based on the role and adapts its follow-up questions to each answer in real time, the way an experienced interviewer would. Companies use MasterMind to interview candidates for roles in BPO and customer experience, retail, eCommerce, manufacturing, financial services and IT services.
MasterMind assesses a candidate’s technical, cognitive and behavioral skills in one interview. If your hiring also covers technical roles, for example software engineering, MasterMind runs coding rounds in 50+ programming languages too. Interviews run 24/7, so candidates can take them at a time that suits them. MasterMind has conducted 20,000+ interviews in a single day, which keeps first rounds moving during campus drives and seasonal hiring peaks. If a candidate runs into a technical problem, built-in chat support helps them during the interview.
When the interview ends, the recruitment team receives a scorecard straight away. It gives a verdict against the hiring criteria, a snapshot of the candidate’s skills against role benchmarks and the reasoning behind every score, with the candidate’s own answers quoted from the transcript under each score.
MasterMind doesn’t infer emotion, personality or mood from a candidate’s face or voice, so every score rests on what the candidate says and does in the interview. Berri MasterMind recommends the top candidates based on interview performance, and hiring managers make the hiring decision, often after an L2 round where they can also assess cultural fit.
2. HireVue
HireVue lists Hindi among the languages available for its AI-scored on-demand interview questions. Candidates answer in the language set for the job, those answers are transcribed in that language, and reviewers see the questions and responses in the same language.
3. iMocha
iMocha’s AI interviewer, Tara, lists Hindi (India) among the languages it can hold a voice-based interview in. The interview conversation runs in the selected language, while the recruiter’s setup and reports stay in English.
4. Hyring
Hyring lists Hindi among the languages its AI interviewer supports. Candidates can respond in their preferred language during the interview.
Whichever tool you shortlist, ask the vendor to run a sample interview in Hindi or the regional language you hire in, for one of your open roles before you decide.
How Are Berri MasterMind Interviews Monitored to Prevent Interview Fraud?
Berri Proctor monitors every Berri MasterMind AI video interview silently in the background, in real time, so candidates can focus on their answers while it checks that the person answering is the person who was invited. Throughout the interview, it checks 3D liveness, face match, voice match, lip sync, eye gaze and tab switching.
If a fraud attempt happens, it flags the moment with timestamped screenshot evidence, which the recruitment team reviews before deciding whether the candidate moves forward. If a candidate questions the interview outcome later, the company can share this proof.
Proctoring software matters because humans struggle to spot fake faces and voices on their own. A 2024 meta-analysis of 56 studies, published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports, found that humans detected deepfakes with an average accuracy of 55.54%, which is close to chance. Our guide to deepfake and proxy candidate detection covers these risks in more detail.
How Does Berri MasterMind Handle Candidate Consent and Data?
Candidates are told about the AI interviewer and the identity checks before a Berri MasterMind interview starts, which follows the rules of building empathetic AI in hiring. Biometric data is processed only with the candidate’s explicit consent or a documented employment-law basis, and Berribot holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and India DPDP Act certifications.
How Can You Test an AI Interview Tool’s Indian Language Support in a Demo?
The most reliable way to test an AI interview tool’s Indian language support is to run an interview in Hindi or another regional language for one of your own roles. These steps help you see whether the AI interviewer handles the full interview in that language.
Bring a job description for a role you plan to hire for in a regional language, and set the interview language before the interview starts.
Take the interview yourself, or ask a colleague who speaks that language to take it, and listen to whether the questions sound natural.
Give a short or vague answer on purpose and check whether the AI interviewer’s follow-up question responds to what was said.
Open the scorecard and check that each score shows its reasoning, with the candidate’s answers quoted under it.
If identity checks matter for the role, ask to see a proctoring flag along with its evidence.
A Berri MasterMind demo is built around these steps. In a 30-minute walkthrough, we run a job description you bring and show exactly how Berri MasterMind conducts a structured interview in Hindi or another Indian language and recommends top candidates.
Every score, with the transcript that produced it
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