60-second mock interview: say it before you have to

Pick a question and answer it out loud for up to a minute. You get your words per minute, the filler words you used, and whether the answer had a beginning, middle and end.

The question

Ready 60 s left Words: 0 Pace: – wpm

Press Start, allow the microphone, and answer the question above. Your words appear here as you speak.

How the listening works. Your browser turns speech into text. Chrome sends the audio to Google's speech service for that; other browsers use their own maker's service. Nothing is sent to ClapAssist: the text and the numbers stay in this page.

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No microphone, or a quiet room you cannot speak in? Paste or type the answer. Words, fillers and shape are counted the same way; pace needs speech.

Example answer (not scored)

What the numbers mean

Pace is words divided by the seconds you spoke. Most people are easy to follow between about 120 and 160 words a minute. Slower is fine for a hard question; much faster and the interviewer stops hearing the detail.
Filler words are the ones the tool found in the text: um, uh, like, basically, actually, you know, kind of, sort of, literally, honestly. Every "like" is counted, so read the list and judge.
Shape looks for the words people use when they set the scene (beginning), say what they did (middle) and give the result (end). It matches phrases, so a good answer in unusual words can show a gap that is not there. Read your transcript and decide.
Nothing here is a score out of 100. It is a mirror, not a grade.

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ClapAssist runs on your Mac or Windows laptop during the video call. It hears the question and shows short spoken-ready prompts. The app stays out of screen share on every plan; only you can see it.

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60-second mock interview: say it before you have to

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Your answer

What the numbers mean

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Practice is yours. The live prompts are the app.