CoPilot Interview Answer Panel Explained: Answer Cards, Reader View and Controls

The answer panel is the right half of a CoPilot Interview session. Each answer appears there as a card, with the question at the top, the answer underneath and a 📋 Copy button, and the bar under the cards redoes, lengthens or shortens the last answer. To get an answer, click ⚡ AI Answer or press Ctrl+Shift+A when the interviewer finishes a question.

What is on the session screen

How to get an answer

1. Start a session from the 🎯 Candidate tab with 🎙 Start Session. The captions fill with what the interviewer says.
2. When the question ends, click ⚡ AI Answer or press Ctrl+Shift+A (⌘+Shift+A on a Mac). While it works, the left side shows "Transcribing & Generating...".
3. Read the new card at the bottom of Answer History. Its header is a few-word summary of the question; click it to see the full question as the captions heard it.
4. When the interviewer moves on, click 🆕 New Q (Ctrl+Shift+Q) so the next answer focuses only on the new question. With 🆕 Auto New Q: ON in ⚙ Options, the default, new speech after a 20-second pause is treated as a new question, and the notice offers Undo.
5. To skip the click, turn on ⚡ Auto Generate AI Response on the setup screen before you start. It is off by default ("Off — click Answer manually"); when on, it answers once the captions stop changing for a few seconds.

What an answer card contains

• A badge (Q1, Q2 and so on) and the question summary.
• The answer, written in the language chosen on the setup screen. By default it comes as three to six short bullet points, because • Bullets starts switched on; see answer length and style settings.
• For code, one code block plus a separate ▶ Example run panel with a sample input and its output.
• The time and a 📋 Copy button, which copies the answer text without the example run.

In Dual AI Mode the panel splits into two columns, one per model, each headed by the model's name, and a 🤖 AI 2 menu appears next to 🤖 AI 1. 📊 Summary adds a report card to the same list: an overall score from 1 to 10, five scored areas, strengths, areas to improve with a practice drill, and likely next-round questions.

Reader view and reading aloud

Open ⚙ Options and click 📖 Reader (it then reads "📖 Reader ON"). A LIVE Now Speaking strip appears above Answer History with the current question and answer in larger text, laid out like a teleprompter: one opening sentence, three to five short bullets and an optional closing line. The strip has three buttons:

• ▶ Read reads the answer aloud: a natural voice on paid plans, your computer's built-in voice on the free plan.
• ⏹ Stop stops the voice.
• ↓ Latest jumps back to the start of the current answer.

Reader stays on the next time you open the app. For a separate answer window that floats over other apps, use 📌 Overlay; window position and size covers it, along with dragging the divider between the two halves of the screen.

Limits and what is saved

Troubleshooting

• No answer appears: check that the captions show the question. If they stay empty, work through the audio steps in the setup guide.
• "Still generating — please wait": an answer is already being written. Wait for it, then ask again.
• The answer mixes two questions: click 🆕 New Q between questions, or type the exact question in the ask box.
• The captions misheard a word: type the question into "💬 Type to ask AI anything..." and press Enter.
• "Recording paused after 10 minutes of silence": click Resume, or the orb, or press Ctrl+Shift+L. No minutes are used while paused.

Use it the right way

CoPilot Interview is an AI interview assistant for Windows and Mac, and the answer panel works the same in practice and in a real call, so learn it first in the free 15-minute live demo, which plays sample interviewer questions inside the real session screen. Online assessments, proctored tests and AI-led interview rounds forbid outside help, so prepare for those with practice instead. If you consider live help in a real interview, follow your employer's rules. The panel is a set of notes, not a script: read the first line, then answer in your own words, the way a teleprompter differs from an assistant explains.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy an answer out of CoPilot Interview?

Yes. Each card has a 📋 Copy button that copies the answer text. Every answer is also saved automatically in a Markdown file in Documents › CoPilot Interview › Sessions.

How do I make the answers shorter?

Click ✂️ Short in the top bar before the next answer, or click ✂️ Shorter in the Last answer bar to shorten the one already on screen. Short gives two to three sentences to say out loud.

Where do my answers go when I click End?

The session screen closes and the setup screen returns. The answers stay in the session file, which the Interview saved message offers to open with its Open folder button.

Does the answer panel work in Mock Interview?

In Mock Interview the AI asks the questions and grades your spoken answers, so the panel shows the questions, your scores out of 10 and feedback instead of suggested answers.