Desktop interview assistance depends on more than a web page. Audio devices, macOS permissions, window behavior, global controls, code signing, and meeting software all affect whether the experience works reliably.
Lyrebird is therefore macOS first. The native Tauri app provides a compact always-on-top overlay, selected-input audio capture, global answer and visibility controls, and explicit guidance for required permissions.
What the macOS beta includes
The current beta focuses on the smallest useful desktop loop.
- Selected input-device capture.
- Streaming transcription and question detection.
- Evidence-grounded answer guidance.
- Compact always-on-top interface.
- Global answer and visibility hotkeys.
- Optional user-triggered coding screen capture.
- Session clearing and account data controls.
Audio routing is a real setup step
Microphone capture and interviewer-audio capture are different paths. Hearing the other person may require a compatible macOS audio-routing configuration. The controlled beta is still verifying that setup across meeting applications.
A successful driver installation does not by itself prove that the device is visible to macOS, selectable in Lyrebird, or receiving the intended meeting audio.
Screen visibility has limits
Lyrebird includes user-controlled window visibility and best-effort content protection for supported capture paths. Those features can help with permitted demonstrations or privacy, but they are not an invisibility guarantee.
External cameras, monitoring software, proctoring, policy controls, and unsupported capture paths remain outside that promise.