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Under Your files in My story, with AI answers on, press Add files and choose your prep documents, whether they're Word (.docx) files, PDFs or plain text, several at once. TrainVue sorts each one into prepared answers, stories and research on a firm, keeping your own words instead of rewriting them, and shows you everything it found before anything is saved, so you can untick what you don't want and fix the short description it writes before you press Add. Each file then has its own switch, which matters most for research: when you're practicing for one firm, turn its notes on and the others off, and the prompter only uses what's on, both when it brings up an answer you prepared and when it writes a new one. If a question in the set you have open already has your own script, that script still comes first. When the prompter hears a question or reads one from your screen and brings up an answer from one of your files, its note names the file. When you update a document, add it again with the same name and it replaces the old version, staying on or off as it was. The files you have on also feed the refined answer you get when an answer is scored, and like the rest of My story, they aren't used for training.

Until now, when a friend asked you a question during a mock interview on a call, you had to find the right set and question in the strip yourself while they waited. With Hear turned on, you share the call's tab, or your screen with its sound, and the prompter listens to the other side of the call separately from your microphone, so your own voice keeps moving the script along as before. When it hears a question that's already in one of your sets or among the answers you prepared in My story, it switches to that question, along with your script or prepared answer when you have one, and a short note tells you what it heard and where the answer came from, with an Undo in case it picked the wrong one. New questions it picks up go into a list that lasts until you close the prompter, where Pro writes an answer right away if AI answers are on, and the free plan gives you a Write my answer button. Read from screen now works the same way, so a question it reads that you already have an answer for, in a set or in My story, comes up as that answer instead of a new one being written. And when your story doesn't give a fact an answer needs, the prompter now writes in a short example, highlighted, so you can keep talking and swap in your own later. Your browser turns the other person's words into text, on your computer once it's set up for that, which the prompter offers to do, and otherwise through its speech service. TrainVue never records the call, and the new questions it hears stay only until you close the prompter, but do let the people on the call know you're using it.

Thank you for the feedback that led to this one. Until now, picking a different question after answering one meant closing the booth and starting a new run. Run interview still takes you through a set in order, the way a real one-way interview would, while Practice lets you pick any question in the set, retake it as many times as you need, go back to the list after each answer, or have TrainVue choose a random question for you, starting with the ones you haven't answered yet in this session. When you're done, Finish takes you to your results.

This came out of the same feedback as Practice mode, and it means a question you've already written a script for no longer has to be typed out again for a new set. In the set editor, Add from another set lets you choose the questions you want and copies them over with their scripts, skipping any question the set already contains. The live prompter's question list now includes your other sets as well, so you can switch the strip to a script from a different set.

Alongside the feedback on how your answer went, content scoring now returns a refined version that you can read straight from the prompter, with examples highlighted wherever a detail was missing so that you can replace them with your own. The first time you use it, the results page walks you through the whole loop: you read the refined answer aloud with the live prompter, record the question again, and then see your two scores side by side.

Everything that was free before Pro launched is still free, so Pro is really for the months when you're practicing heavily and want more scored answers and AI help than the free plan includes. You can cancel at any time from Account in the app.

You can either snip the question with your computer's screenshot tool and paste it into the strip, or share a tab and draw a read zone over the question once. Either way, only the part you snipped or the area inside your zone is sent to be read, and the prompter then brings up your answer, whether that's the one you prepared, word for word, or one it writes from your story.