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Which Side Of The Table?
The same app goes on both laptops and asks at launch. The interviewer’s laptop runs the speech engine and keeps the transcript; the candidate’s only shows the questions.
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In ProgressInterview Assist
ABP · Mohamad Zulfaiz Rofi
Captions for an in-person interview with a deaf or hard-of-hearing candidate — checked before they are shown.
Why it exists
The job it takes off someone
Lark Meetings’ live subtitles did not fit an in-person interview, for two reasons. They do not do Malay, or the mixed register a real ZUS interview runs in. And live captions rewrite themselves as the model hears more, which is hard to read when the text is your only channel. Interview Assist is turn-based instead: the interviewer speaks, reads the transcription, corrects it, and only then sends it to the candidate’s screen.
What the current build covers
Built, and not yet used in a real interview. It runs entirely on the interviewer’s laptop — the speech model, the translation and the transcript — and nothing leaves it until someone deliberately files the session to Lark.
Who it is for
Three people open this
If none of these is you, it is probably not the tool you want — say so on the form and ABP will point you at the right one.
Interviewers and hiring managers
Speak the question, check the words, send it. Switch between English and Malay per question.
The candidate
Reads each question in large type, in English with Malay underneath, and types the answer back.
People & Talent
A filed transcript of each interview in a Lark Base, kept 180 days and then deleted.
Documentation
How to use Interview Assist
One interview, in the order it happens, with the drawings from the app’s own guide. The recording at the top shows the first three steps.
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Start A Session
Candidate name, role applied for, your name. If the candidate is on a second laptop, it finds yours on the Wi-Fi and asks to join — you accept only when the number on both screens matches.
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Speak, Check, Send
Hold Shift while you speak. The question appears as text for you to correct, and Translate gives the Malay line for you to check. Nothing reaches the candidate until you press Send.
- I'm Speaking — English or Bahasa Melayu — set it to the language you are about to use.
- Auto Send — Off every time the page opens. When on, each auto-sent line is marked “not checked”.
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End And File
Ends the session and files the transcript to Lark. It is deleted 180 days after the interview.
Limits worth knowing
What Interview Assist is not
Written down because it is cheaper to read this now than to find it out in front of someone.
- It is not a video-call tool. Both people are in the same room; for a remote interview, use Lark Meetings.
- It is not live captioning. It is turn-based on purpose, so nothing changes under the candidate while they read.
- It is not connected to the Applicant Tracking System.
- It is not a transcript of record — it is a good-faith text, corrected live by one person.
- It is not the only option. Ask the candidate first: some prefer an interpreter, some lip-read.
Who made it
Credits
Developer
Mohamad Zulfaiz RofiMain developer · ABP
Published by
ABPZUS Coffee — internal tools
No other contributors are recorded for this one. If you worked on it and are not here, tell ABP — it is an omission, not a judgement.
The details
App info
- Version
- Not released yet
- Updated on
- 15 September 2026
- Download size
- 1.8 GB installer — Python and all three speech models are inside, so it needs no internet
- Installs
- Not counted
- Project code
- 300
Requires — Windows
Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit. A microphone; a second screen for the candidate, or a second laptop.
Requires — macOS
Apple Silicon Mac.
Data safety
What it does with data
Written so you could check each line rather than take it on trust. If one of them turns out to be wrong, that is a bug in the tool, not a wording problem here.
- Transcribes on the laptop itself. No audio is ever stored — each clip is transcribed in memory and dropped.
- Keeps the candidate’s name, the role, the interviewer’s name and the text of the interview, for 180 days.
- Files the transcript to a Lark Base only when the interviewer ends the session.
- The candidate’s screen holds no data at all; it only shows what the interviewer sends.
Before you ask
Questions people actually send
Does it need the internet?
No. The speech engine and the translator are inside the installer. Only filing the transcript to Lark needs a connection.
Is the interview recorded?
The words are, as text, for 180 days. The audio never is. Tell the candidate both before you start.
Developer contact
Support
Message ABP in Lark. That is the fastest route and it reaches whoever is closest to the problem.
Maintained by
Mohamad Zulfaiz Rofi, ABP
Where the source lives
Internal, on the ABP machines. There is no public repository and no third-party code hosting for any tool on this site.