Interview Copilot
During an interview, SpeechShield transcribes the other person’s question and generates talking points when they pause. Suggestions draw from the selected resume and job posting, while follow-ups retain session context.
SpeechShield
SpeechShield is a Mac AI copilot for interviews, client meetings, and live translation, with transcriptions and context-based talking points in an overlay or phone browser.
AI assistance for interviews, meetings, and translation
SpeechShield is a Mac-based AI copilot for job interviews, client meetings, and live translation. It listens to selected meeting or call audio, transcribes speech, and presents interview talking points, meeting responses, or translated captions while the conversation is in progress.
Its suggestions are intended to stay grounded in the information the user supplies. Interview answers use a resume and job posting; Meeting Copilot uses prepared client or project materials. The app also provides a phone viewer, session history, optional recording, and controls for keeping the overlay out of screen sharing and recordings.
Core features
Meeting Copilot
For client meetings and calls, add company details, attendees, goals, agendas, proposals, price lists, and notes. Suggestions are grounded in those materials, and source titles can be shown with the answer.
Live translation
The Mac app transcribes meetings and videos and places translated captions beneath each sentence as it finishes. Translation supports 13 languages and can be changed during a session.
Configurable answer output
Choose Full, Concise, or Key Points answer styles. Set interview and answer languages separately, request an answer immediately with a keyboard shortcut, or type a question yourself.
Mac overlay and phone viewer
Use the Mac overlay during a call or scan a QR code to open the same session in a phone browser on the same Wi-Fi. The phone can show questions and answers without installing a separate app.
Local privacy controls
The overlay is designed not to appear in screen shares, screenshots, or recordings. Session history is encrypted on the Mac, and imported material is kept as extracted text rather than retaining the original files.
Practical use cases
Job interviews
Prepare a company-and-role profile with a resume and job posting, then read grounded talking points as questions finish. Use separate interview and answer languages when the conversation and preferred reading language differ, and review questions, notes, or recordings afterward.
Client meetings and sales calls
Create a context for a client or project with the meeting goal, agenda, attendees, and relevant commercial or technical documents. During the call, use source-labeled suggestions to keep proposals, pricing, dates, and commitments aligned with the prepared materials.
Meetings and videos in another language
Use the Mac app to transcribe a meeting or video and display translated captions under each sentence as it finishes. This is suited to recurring conversations or media in another language where live on-screen translation is useful.
Phone as a second screen
Pair a phone browser with the Mac session over the same Wi-Fi and use the phone as a larger second display for questions and answers. The workflow is useful when the Mac overlay is difficult to read or needs to remain unobtrusive.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Interview suggestions are based on the user’s resume and job posting rather than a general profile.
- Meeting answers can cite the title of the source material, with numbers, prices, dates, and commitments restricted to supplied materials.
- Interview and answer languages can be set separately, which is useful when a conversation and the user’s preferred reading language differ.
- The overlay is intended to stay hidden from screen shares, screenshots, and recordings, while history and extracted materials are encrypted on the Mac.
- Users can connect their own OpenAI key, Claude Code, Codex, or a local Ollama model instead of relying only on SpeechShield-provided AI.
Cons
- The desktop requirement is specific: the product pages state support for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.
- The free SpeechShield AI allowance is limited after its one-time trial; continued use of SpeechShield-provided AI requires a paid plan, while own API keys or local CLI options have separate usage terms.
- Standard team billing is not currently offered; the pricing page describes per-person billing and directs multi-user inquiries to the company.
FAQ
What devices and operating system does SpeechShield support?
SpeechShield is a Mac application for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later. It can display suggestions in a Mac overlay or in a phone browser paired by QR code on the same Wi-Fi network; the phone does not require an app.
What materials can I add?
For Interview Copilot, add a resume and job posting to a profile. For Meeting Copilot, add client or project details, attendees, goals, agendas, and supporting proposals, price lists, or notes. Text PDFs, Word, RTF, plain text, and Markdown materials are supported for meeting contexts; interview resume import supports text PDFs.
Can the interview and answer languages be different?
Interview Copilot transcribes the interview language and can show talking points in a separately selected answer language. It offers Full, Concise, and Key Points styles, and follow-up suggestions use earlier questions and answers from the session.
Is there a free plan?
The free account includes a one-time SpeechShield AI trial of 60 minutes and 50 AI answers, with limited profiles, meeting materials, and seven days of session history. Users can continue without those SpeechShield AI limits by connecting their own API key or a supported local CLI. Pro and Max plans add larger or fair-use SpeechShield AI allowances and additional history and profile capacity.
Does SpeechShield support team billing?
Team billing is not currently available as a standard plan; the pricing page says accounts are billed per person and asks organizations planning multi-user use to contact SpeechShield.
Quick Facts
- Category
- AI productivity and meeting assistant
- Primary platform
- Mac app for Apple silicon Macs; macOS 26 or later
- Main workflows
- Interview Copilot, Meeting Copilot, and live translation
- Live translation
- 13 languages
- Phone access
- QR-paired browser viewer on the same Wi-Fi; no phone app required
- Pricing model
- Free account with limited SpeechShield AI trial; Pro and Max plans, plus own API key and local CLI options
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