SpeakHints

SpeakHints is a private overlay that listens to spoken conversations in real time and shows AI hints for what to say next, with question answering, five minute recaps, translation across 30+ languages and customizable quick hints on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.

SpeakHints is a real-time speech assistant that listens to a conversation and quietly shows suggestions for what to say next. It captures audio from either a microphone or your system output, transcribes the speech as it happens, and pushes short AI-generated hints into a small overlay that only the user can see. The company positions it for online meetings, interviews, sales calls, presentations, phone calls and podcast recordings, so the underlying idea is general: any situation where a person has to think on their feet out loud. The feature set goes beyond simple next-line prompts. Built-in quick hints cover answering a question with AI-assisted context, summarizing the last five minutes of a call, translating recent phrases into another language, and collecting action points. An auto continue mode watches for pauses and finishes a sentence to keep the exchange flowing, while an ask AI option lets the user query a ChatGPT-style model about anything related or unrelated to the conversation. Hints can be used as shipped or customized, which matters for people who repeat the same format, such as discovery calls or structured interviews. The tool is aimed at knowledge workers who spend much of the day on calls and at non-native speakers who need translation support mid-conversation. It works independently of the meeting platform, so Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams are covered without a plugin, and it runs on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS, with watchOS listed as coming soon. Speech is processed securely according to the vendor, and data is not stored without explicit consent. The obvious alternative is a general-purpose chatbot in a second window, which is slower and visible to anyone sharing a screen. SpeakHints competes on latency and discretion, and it leans on OpenAI models for the suggestion layer. It supports more than 30 languages and claims to adapt to different styles and accents. At the time of writing the homepage invites visitors to join a waitlist, and no pricing tiers are published there, so budget planning has to wait for details.