Real-time AI meeting assistant for live calls

Almost every AI meeting tool helps after the call: it records, transcribes, and sends a summary. A real-time AI meeting assistant does something different — it helps while the conversation is still happening, when what you say next actually changes the outcome.

LiveCue is a real-time meeting assistant for Mac. It listens through system audio and surfaces short, private cues — the follow-up question, the vague answer to pin down, the commitment to capture — on an overlay only you can see, without adding a bot to the call.

Why timing is the whole product

The hard part of a meeting is rarely writing the summary. The hard part is noticing the vague answer, asking the follow-up question, and remembering the point you meant to raise — before the conversation moves on. A transcript delivered forty minutes later cannot help with any of that.

Real-time help matters most when the outcome depends on your next sentence: discovery calls, demos, interviews, customer escalations, client reviews, negotiations, and the internal meeting where a decision is quietly being made without an owner.

Anatomy of a useful live cue

A real-time assistant fails if it makes you read. The cues that work share a shape:

• Short. One line you can absorb in a glance: "Ask who owns the migration timeline."
• One action. A question to ask, a point to clarify, or a note to capture — never a paragraph of talking points.
• Timed to the topic. It arrives while the subject is still open. A few seconds of latency is fine; a minute is useless.
• Grounded in the call. Triggered by what was actually said, not a generic script.
• Optional. You can ignore it and lose nothing. The assistant is a second pair of ears, not a teleprompter.

The kinds of cues LiveCue surfaces

• Follow-up questions when an answer was vague or moved on too quickly: budget mentioned without a number, a stakeholder referenced without a name.
• Clarifications when two people are using the same word for different things, or a scope change slips in mid-sentence.
• Commitments and action items stated in passing — "I'll send that over" — so they make it into the recap with an owner.
• Reminders from your own notes: the point you prepared, the question you wanted to ask, the fact that contradicts what was just claimed.
• Objection cues on sales calls, pointing at the concern behind the words rather than a canned rebuttal.

After the call, LiveCue turns the same stream into a recap of decisions, owners, and open questions — so the live help does not leave you without notes.

Live cues vs. meeting notes

AI notetakers are valuable when you need a record. They join the meeting, record it, and deliver a transcript and summary later — a shared artifact for the team. That is a different job from helping the person in the meeting perform better in it.

• Notetaker: after the call, visible bot, full recording stored, output shared with attendees.
• Real-time assistant: during the call, no bot, nothing stored, output private to you.

They are not mutually exclusive. Some teams run a notetaker for the record and LiveCue for the person doing the talking. See AI meeting assistant vs AI notetaker for the full breakdown.

How LiveCue produces a cue

LiveCue runs as a Mac app and captures system audio — whatever your headphones are playing — so it works identically with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, or any other app. The audio is streamed to a speech-to-text provider, and short transcript snippets go to an AI provider that returns the cue. Nothing is stored: audio and transcripts are processed transiently and discarded, as described in our privacy policy.

The overlay is excluded from macOS screen capture, so sharing your screen shows your slides and not your cues. And because LiveCue never joins the meeting, there is no participant, no recording banner, and nothing for a host to approve.

Using real-time help without getting distracted

• Park the overlay near your camera so a glance looks like eye contact, not reading.
• Treat cues as a checklist, not a script — act on the ones that fit, skip the rest.
• Prepare: the more context LiveCue has about the call, the more specific the cues.
• Let the recap do the note-taking so your attention stays on the person.

When real-time is the wrong tool

If you need a complete, shareable transcript that everyone has consented to — compliance recording, legal or HR conversations, a large all-hands — a recording notetaker is the right choice. And if a meeting's rules prohibit assistance, no tool changes that. LiveCue is for the conversations where you are allowed to be well-prepared and want to stay sharp while you are in them.

Use it responsibly

Recording, transcription, workplace, and interview rules vary by region and organization. LiveCue is a personal productivity tool; you are responsible for following the rules that apply to each meeting. Use it to listen better and remember follow-up work — not to misrepresent yourself.

Related LiveCue guides

• Best AI meeting assistant for Mac
• AI meeting copilot
• Bot-free AI meeting assistant
• AI interview assistant
• AI sales call assistant
• AI meeting assistant vs AI notetaker

FAQ

What is a real-time AI meeting assistant?

Software that helps during the meeting, surfacing a follow-up question, a point to clarify, or a commitment to capture a few seconds after it becomes relevant, instead of only summarizing after the call ends.

How fast does LiveCue surface a cue?

The first cue typically appears about six seconds after something relevant is said. That is fast enough to act on while the topic is still open, and slow enough to avoid reacting to every half-sentence.

Does LiveCue replace an AI notetaker?

Not if you need a verbatim record. LiveCue produces a recap of decisions and action items, but its core value is the live layer. If your team needs a shared, complete transcript, a notetaker still has a role.

Will other people on the call see the cues?

No. Cues appear on a private overlay on your Mac that is excluded from macOS screen capture, and LiveCue never joins the meeting, so nothing appears for other participants.