Yapmeter, the tiny referee for meeting turns

Field notes

Yapmeter is a menu-bar utility that reacts when a meeting app activates the Mac microphone, using speech-shaped sound to mark another speaker, a pause, or the user’s own turn. Its timer warns at four minutes, while an optional on-device speech-recognition setting is intended to ignore typing and music without retaining text. The page lists Zoom, Google Meet in Chrome, and Slack huddles, with other audio routed through a manual Listen to All Audio mode.