Meet Yap.
A tiny pet in your menu bar. Red while someone else is talking, green when they've finished, and a clock while it's you.
He knows whose turn it is.
Nothing to press. When a meeting app has your mic, Yap wakes up. When the call ends, he goes back to sleep.
Red while someone else has the floor.
Yellow while he waits out a pause, green once they've actually stopped.
Blue, with a clock, while it's you.
Two kinds of people download this.
The clock is for you. It counts from the moment you start, and at four minutes he gives you a look.
The green light is for you. He waits out the pauses for breath and smiles when they've actually finished.
He hears that you're talking, not what you're saying.
Yapmeter only checks whether there's speech-shaped sound, yours or theirs. Nothing is recorded, transcribed, or sent anywhere. It only runs during a call.
To hear the other people. It's the only way macOS lets an app do that.
To time you. Say no and the signal still works; you just lose the clock.
Works with
No. It checks whether there's speech, then forgets. Nothing is stored or transcribed.
Not automatically yet. Pick Listen to All Audio from his menu and he'll listen to everything your Mac plays, for up to an hour or until you switch it off.
No. macOS doesn't tell apps that. If you're muted and talking anyway, the clock still runs.