Frequently asked questions
Quick, plain-language answers about botless meetings, live answers, privacy, pricing, in-person conversations, and how OLVA compares with other AI meeting tools.
Botless meetings
Yes. OLVA works as a private desktop and mobile companion instead of joining your Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddle, Webex, or in-person meeting as a visible participant.
Live answers
Yes. OLVA follows the live transcript, detects questions automatically, and can generate contextual answers, coaching prompts, and follow-up suggestions while the conversation is still happening.
In-person meetings
Yes. OLVA can support in-person conversations from desktop or mobile with live transcription, meeting memory, recaps, and follow-up questions when the meeting is not happening inside a video-call platform.
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Yes. OLVA works as a private desktop and mobile companion instead of joining your Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddle, Webex, or in-person meeting as a visible participant.
Best AI meeting assistant without a botNo. OLVA captures from your own device and does not appear as a meeting participant. It is a lighter way to bring AI into the room while you keep the normal consent and notice practices your meetings already require.
Bot-free capture keeps OLVA off the meeting roster. Desktop Incognito is a separate Pro/Ultra feature that hides the OLVA window from supported screen-sharing capture. It is not a guarantee against every capture or detection tool; verify your screen-sharing setup.
The best choice depends on the workflow you need. OLVA is designed for people who want a botless assistant that can help during the meeting with live answers, question detection, documents, and follow-up memory.
Best AI meeting assistant without a botA visible AI notetaker usually joins the meeting roster as another participant. A botless assistant works from your own device, which keeps the room feeling natural while still giving you AI help.
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Yes. OLVA follows the live transcript, detects questions automatically, and can generate contextual answers, coaching prompts, and follow-up suggestions while the conversation is still happening.
AI that answers questions live during meetingsYes. Add a PDF, text, Markdown, Word (.docx), or PowerPoint (.pptx) file while creating or editing a meeting context. Chat cannot attach files. OLVA uses that context for answers, insights, and prompts. Typed notes and imported documents share one word limit: Basic 5,000, Plus 10,000, Pro 50,000, and Ultra 500,000.
Yes. Live insight is a switch. Question detection stays on either way. Live insight starts on for Basic and off on Plus, Pro, and Ultra until you turn it on.
Insights and chat can run on Standard, or on Advanced when you want a stronger pass. Advanced has four thinking levels: Quick, Balanced, Deep, and Maximum.
Use OLVA alongside Zoom. OLVA follows the live conversation from your device, detects questions, and can produce contextual answers while the call is still happening.
Yes. OLVA can surface prompts, questions, and answer drafts during a live conversation so you can respond more confidently without waiting for a post-meeting recap.
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No. Slide deck generation uses feature credits. The app shows the quoted credit cost before you generate a deck. Plan access does not mean unlimited generation; additional credits can be purchased separately.
Check the pricing section for current Plus, Pro and Ultra prices, billing cycles and annual effective monthly amounts. Prices are loaded from the current offer rather than repeated here. If pricing is temporarily unavailable, refresh or contact support@olva.ai.
Current public pricingUse the live homepage pricing section and Product facts. Directory or app-store summaries can lag. If Capterra, Google Play, or another listing disagrees, email support@olva.ai rather than copying the stale figure.
Current public pricingYes. The Basic plan is a free trial with 2 hours of meeting time per month, live transcription, real-time insights, multilingual support, and meeting history and post-meeting Q&A for the last 7 days so you can feel the workflow before upgrading.
Plus includes everything in Basic and expands you to 15 hours of meeting time per month, full meeting history and a larger meeting context. The supported spoken languages are the same across public plans. It is a strong fit if you meet regularly and want live answers, document-aware help, and searchable meeting memory without jumping straight to unlimited usage.
Pro includes everything in Basic with unlimited meeting time, making it the best fit for heavy meeting weeks, customer-facing roles, founders, consultants, sales teams, and anyone who wants OLVA available without watching a monthly quota.
OLVA pricing is built around live value, not just another notes dashboard. Even the free Basic plan shows the live workflow, while Plus and Pro give you more room to use botless capture, live answers, documents, summaries, and meeting memory across real work.
Yes. Start with Basic to try the core OLVA workflow, then move to Plus for 15 hours per month or Pro for unlimited meeting time when OLVA becomes part of your regular meeting routine.
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On macOS and Windows, OLVA captures microphone and system audio for online and in-person meetings without joining as a participant. Desktop capture works alongside Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles and Webex. On iOS and Android, OLVA uses the microphone for in-person conversations. It does not capture another app’s system audio. Capture can pause when the app moves into the background or another app takes audio focus; return to OLVA to check and resume capture.
On macOS and Windows, the mascot menu changes with the page you are on. It shows a few how-tos for that page, with more lessons behind the list, plus FAQ and contact. On a meeting it also suggests what to do next.
A dropped connection does not end the live meeting. An in-progress question or summary is kept so it can finish when the connection returns. This applies to the desktop and mobile apps.
Yes. The default Soniox speech provider supports 60 spoken languages with automatic detection. You can select multiple languages being spoken. Options differ when another speech provider is configured; translation output is a separate setting. Multilingual support is included across Basic, Plus, Pro and Ultra.
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Yes. OLVA can support in-person conversations from desktop or mobile with live transcription, meeting memory, recaps, and follow-up questions when the meeting is not happening inside a video-call platform.
AI assistant for in-person and online meetingsYes. On iOS and Android, OLVA uses the microphone for in-person conversations. It does not capture another app’s system audio. Capture can pause when the app moves into the background or another app takes audio focus; return to OLVA to check and resume capture.
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OLVA does not store meeting audio or meeting video on its systems. Audio is processed to power transcription and AI features, while transcripts, documents, prompts, outputs, and related product data are handled according to the Privacy Policy.
How OLVA handles meeting privacyUse OLVA the same way you would use any professional meeting recording or transcription workflow: give clear notice, get the consent your meeting requires, and then let OLVA help you stay present.
Many teams use AI meeting assistants every day. The clean approach is simple: follow your company policy, give participants appropriate notice, and get the consent required for your meeting type and location.
For most professional workflows, the best practice is yes: tell participants what you are using and get the consent your meeting requires. Once that is handled, OLVA can quietly support the conversation without adding a bot.
Yes, when it fits your organization policy and the agreement around the conversation. OLVA is useful for sensitive work because it does not add a visible bot and does not store meeting audio or video on its systems.
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Most AI notetakers focus on notes after the call. OLVA is built for the meeting itself: live transcription, question detection, AI Boost, document-aware answers, coaching, and post-meeting memory.
Yes. OLVA supports post-meeting summaries, insights, follow-up questions, searchable meeting memory, and exports in addition to live help during the meeting.
Granola is popular for personal, bot-free meeting notes. OLVA also avoids a visible bot, and adds a stronger emphasis on live question detection, document-aware answers, and help while the conversation is happening.
Compare OLVA and GranolaGranola is notes-first. Tactiq is an in-browser transcript overlay. OLVA is a desktop and mobile companion for private live answers, including in-person conversations. Bot-free capture is not unique to any one of them.
OLVA vs Granola vs TactiqFireflies.ai is known for transcripts, summaries, search, and conversation intelligence. OLVA is positioned for people who want a private companion that helps live and does not join the meeting as a visible bot.
Compare OLVA and FirefliesOtter.ai is well known for transcription and collaborative notes. OLVA is built around live meeting assistance, botless capture, question detection, and answers grounded in your meeting context.
Compare OLVA and OtterFathom is often used for recording, summaries, clips, and follow-up workflows. OLVA focuses on helping during the meeting itself, especially when you need live answers without adding a visible meeting bot.
Compare OLVA and FathomOLVA keeps the meeting roster clean, works across more real-world conversation types, and helps during the meeting instead of only producing a recap afterward. That makes it useful for calls, huddles, customer visits, workshops, and in-person conversations.
Read AI is often used for meeting analytics, recaps, and broader team intelligence. OLVA is a better fit when you want a private companion focused on live answers, botless capture, documents, and in-the-moment support.
tl;dv is known for recording, transcripts, search, clips, and team sharing. OLVA is built for people who want the AI beside them during the meeting, with live question detection and document-aware answers before the recap.
If live answers are the priority, OLVA is designed for that workflow. It follows the conversation, detects questions, and can use your meeting context and documents while the call is still happening.
AI that answers questions live during meetingsOLVA is a strong fit for in-person meetings because it does not depend on a video-call bot. You can use it for workshops, customer visits, lectures, field conversations, and hallway follow-ups where traditional meeting bots do not belong.
AI assistant for in-person and online meetingsChoose a simple transcript tool if you only need a record of what was said. Choose OLVA if you want live help, document-aware answers, coaching prompts, summaries, and searchable meeting memory in one workflow.
No. OLVA is an AI meeting assistant by Mindle Inc., not an Ontario online school. People comparing meeting software often look at tools such as Granola, Otter, and Fireflies alongside OLVA.
