How to Use CoPilot Interview With Zoom (Windows and Mac)

To use CoPilot Interview with Zoom, open the app before the meeting, run 1. Check your audio, start a session on the 🎯 Candidate tab and join Zoom with computer audio. CoPilot Interview is an AI interview assistant for Windows and Mac that runs in its own window: it listens to what your computer plays plus your microphone, captions the interviewer and writes an answer when you click ⚡ AI Answer. It never joins the meeting and installs nothing into Zoom; why it is not a Zoom app explains that choice.

Before the call: set Zoom's audio

1. In the Zoom desktop app, open Settings, then Audio. Set Speaker to the headphones you will wear and click Test Speaker.
2. Make the same headphones your computer's default output (Windows: Settings → System → Sound; Mac: System Settings → Sound → Output). CoPilot Interview hears the computer's output, so Zoom and the computer should agree on one device.
3. Set Zoom's Microphone to the mic you will speak into.
4. If the app's audio check flags a noisy room, it suggests Zoom's own fix: Settings → Audio → Background noise suppression → High. That changes what the interviewer hears, not what the app hears.
5. Joining in a browser instead? The Zoom web client works the same way, because the app hears the browser's sound too. See using an assistant with the Zoom web client.

Step by step: a Zoom interview with CoPilot Interview

1. Open CoPilot Interview. The first time only, the license screen asks for a key: click Use the free plan, or paste your key and click 🔑 Activate License.
2. Click the 🎯 Candidate tab. Optionally paste the job into 📋 Company & Job Description, add your résumé under Your Resume (or 📎 Attach File) and pick the interview language under 🌐 Language, which sets both captions and answers.
3. Under 1. Check your audio, click ▶ Start test. Speak and watch the You meter; click Test Speaker in Zoom and watch the Interviewer meter. The state should read “Live · mic + meeting audio”. Click ■ Stop test.
4. Shortly before the interviewer joins, click 🎙 Start Session. Listening starts at once and so does the session clock, so don't start it long before the call.
5. Join the Zoom meeting and choose Join with Computer Audio. Never dial in by phone: a phone's audio never reaches the computer.
6. Read the question in the CC Captions box. When it ends, click ⚡ AI Answer or press Ctrl+Shift+A. The site says a structured answer lands in about 2 seconds.
7. Before the next question, click 🆕 New Q (Ctrl+Shift+Q) so the AI looks only at the new one. With 🆕 Auto New Q: ON in ⚙ Options, a 20-second pause does this for you, with Undo in the notice.
8. If the interviewer shares a coding problem, 🖥 Read screen (Ctrl+Shift+S) screenshots the screen and lets the AI read it.
9. Click End after the call. The session is saved as a Markdown file in Documents › CoPilot Interview › Sessions.

Windows and Mac differences

On a Mac, allow Microphone and Screen Recording when macOS asks (current macOS calls the second one Screen & System Audio Recording). The app's own notice says Screen Recording is “Needed for screenshots and system-audio capture”; after granting it, quit with ⌘Q and reopen. Then run the audio check. If the Interviewer meter reads “no audio”, the meeting's sound is not reaching the app, and in a session the captions area shows ● REC MIC with the note “macOS: Install BlackHole for system audio capture. Mic recording active.” Follow that note. BlackHole is a third-party virtual audio driver, and the app gives no further setup steps for it. Until the Interviewer meter moves, the session hears only your microphone.

Limits that matter for a Zoom round

A 30- or 45-minute Zoom interview does not fit in one free session. The app warns “⚠ 2 minutes remaining in this session” before any session cap, then the session ends. If nobody speaks for 10 minutes, recording pauses and the clock stops until you click Resume, press Ctrl+Shift+L or click the orb.

If something goes wrong in Zoom

Use it the way the rules allow

Most people get the most value from practice: the free AI mock interview asks questions built from your résumé and the job, listens to your spoken answer and scores it. For a live Zoom interview, follow your employer's rules, and read the invitation. Online assessments and AI-led interview rounds forbid outside help, so prepare for those instead. The Zoom interview assistant overview covers what the app does in Zoom rounds in more depth.

Frequently asked questions

Does CoPilot Interview work with the Zoom web client?

Yes. The app hears what your computer plays, so a Zoom meeting in a browser tab is captioned the same way as one in the Zoom desktop app.

Do I need to install anything in Zoom?

No. There is no Zoom plugin or Marketplace app. CoPilot Interview is a separate desktop window that never joins the meeting.

Is the Screen Recording permission enough on a Mac?

Allow it, because the app needs it for screenshots and system-audio capture, then check the Interviewer meter in the audio check. If it reads no audio, the captions area shows a note asking you to install BlackHole for system audio capture; follow that note.

Can it hear me if I join Zoom by phone?

No. Dialing in sends the interviewer's voice to your phone, not your computer. Join with computer audio on the computer that runs CoPilot Interview.