Teaching in front of people is two jobs at once. One is the material you prepared. The other is everything the room throws at it — the question three slides ahead, the objection you half-answered last term, the request for an example you have not used before.
The second job is where talks come apart. You either derail the structure to chase the question, or you defer it and lose the person who asked. Elyvo sits over your slides and handles the second job so you can keep doing the first.
What it does while you are talking
Catches the question you did not plan for
Ambient mode follows the audio, so when someone asks something off your path, the relevant angle is already on screen. You answer it in thirty seconds and return to the slide you were on, instead of improvising for four minutes.
Finds the concrete example on demand
Abstract explanations fail quietly — nobody tells you they lost the thread. When you can feel the room drifting, hit the hotkey and ask for a worked example at the level you are teaching. It is faster than the pause you would otherwise take.
Keeps the numbers straight
The date, the benchmark, the version where the API changed. Getting one wrong in front of a hundred people is the kind of thing that follows a talk around. Elyvo brings back the specific fact instead of letting you approximate it.
It works over whatever you present from
Elyvo is a desktop overlay, not a plugin. It runs over Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, a webinar platform, Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, a browser tab or a live terminal — because it does not integrate with any of them. One hotkey brings it up over whatever is on screen, and the same key dismisses it.
Elyvo keeps its own window out of the screenshots it takes, so the context it works from is your slides and material rather than the assistant overlaying them. That matters more here than almost anywhere: the deck is on screen for the entire session.
The course remembers itself
A lecture series is not a set of independent talks. Give the course its own project and Elyvo accumulates what the sessions produced: the terminology you settled on, the questions that came up twice, the explanation that finally landed. Week six starts with week one still in the room.
Add your slides and reading list to the project and the answers stop being generic — they come back in the vocabulary you have actually been teaching in.
Be straight with your audience
Transcribing a session means recording the people in it, including the ones asking questions. In many countries that requires telling them or getting their consent first, and an audience is a lot of people to have not asked. Elyvo does not handle that for you. Check the rules where you are — and where your institution is — before you record.
Also worth knowing plainly: audio goes to a transcription provider and screen context goes to AI providers so suggestions can be produced at all. If you are teaching unpublished or restricted material, read the Privacy Policy first.
Try it on a rehearsal
The free plan needs no card. Run it through a practice pass of a talk you already know — you will see immediately whether it helps or gets in the way, and that is a cheaper test than a live audience.