u/meetOLVA

I’m one of the people building OLVA, and we recently added live translation during meetings. I’d like feedback from people who regularly work across languages.

The basic setup is: if a meeting is in English, you can keep the original transcript in English while viewing a live translation in another language, such as French, Spanish, Persian, or German.

There are two options:

• Continuous translation: Translate the conversation as it happens.
• Selected-text translation: Highlight only the part you want translated.

It currently supports 87 languages and regional variants. The translation is available alongside the other meeting context, so you can refer back to the original conversation rather than losing the wording being discussed. It is designed to work without adding a visible bot to a call, and can also be used for in-person conversations.

We built it for situations where someone can generally follow a meeting but loses important detail when people speak quickly, use unfamiliar terms, or move between languages.

I would really value practical feedback, especially from multilingual teams:

• Do you prefer continuous translation, or translating only selected sections?
• What amount of delay is still usable in a live conversation?
• Should the original and translated transcript always appear together?
• What is the best way to handle people switching languages mid-meeting?
• What would make this genuinely useful—or make you stop using it?

Please be candid. The most helpful feedback is what feels confusing, distracting, or missing.

I’m one of the founders of OLVA, and we recently shipped something I’ve wanted in meeting assistants for a while: live translation while the meeting is actually happening.

The idea is pretty simple.

You can be in an English meeting, for example, keep the original live transcript in English, and have OLVA translate the conversation into French, Spanish, Persian, German, or another preferred language as people speak.

There are two ways to use it:

• Automatic live translation: OLVA continuously translates the meeting into your selected language.
• Manual translation: if you don’t want everything translated, you can select a specific part of the conversation and translate only that section.

OLVA currently supports 87 languages and regional variants.

What makes this especially useful for us is that translation isn’t isolated from the rest of the meeting assistant. The translated conversation sits alongside OLVA’s other real-time features, such as automatic question detection, contextual answers, Live Q&A, definitions, suggestions, and meeting insights.

It also works without adding a visible bot to Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc., and the same approach can be used for in-person conversations.

We built this mainly for situations where someone understands the general language of a meeting but occasionally loses context because people are speaking quickly, using unfamiliar terminology, or switching into a language they’re less comfortable with.

I’d really like to hear from people who regularly work in a second language or with international teams.

If you try it, I’d especially love feedback on:

• Is continuous translation actually useful, or do you prefer translating only selected parts?
• How much translation delay feels acceptable in a live conversation?
• Should the original transcript and translation always stay visible together?
• How should we handle meetings where people switch languages mid-conversation?
• What would make live meeting translation genuinely useful for your workflow?

I’m one of the people building it, so feel free to be critical. I’m particularly interested in the things that feel awkward or missing rather than just whether the translation works.

I’m one of the founders of OLVA, and we recently shipped something I’ve wanted in meeting assistants for a while: live translation while the meeting is actually happening.

The idea is pretty simple.

You can be in an English meeting, for example, keep the original live transcript in English, and have OLVA translate the conversation into French, Spanish, Persian, German, or another preferred language as people speak.

There are two ways to use it:

• Automatic live translation: OLVA continuously translates the meeting into your selected language.
• Manual translation: if you don’t want everything translated, you can select a specific part of the conversation and translate only that section.

OLVA currently supports 87 languages and regional variants.

What makes this especially useful for us is that translation isn’t isolated from the rest of the meeting assistant. The translated conversation sits alongside OLVA’s other real-time features, such as automatic question detection, contextual answers, Live Q&A, definitions, suggestions, and meeting insights.

It also works without adding a visible bot to Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc., and the same approach can be used for in-person conversations.

We built this mainly for situations where someone understands the general language of a meeting but occasionally loses context because people are speaking quickly, using unfamiliar terminology, or switching into a language they’re less comfortable with.

I’d really like to hear from people who regularly work in a second language or with international teams.

If you try it, I’d especially love feedback on:

• Is continuous translation actually useful, or do you prefer translating only selected parts?
• How much translation delay feels acceptable in a live conversation?
• Should the original transcript and translation always stay visible together?
• How should we handle meetings where people switch languages mid-conversation?
• What would make live meeting translation genuinely useful for your workflow?

I’m one of the people building it, so feel free to be critical. I’m particularly interested in the things that feel awkward or missing rather than just whether the translation works.

Hey everyone,

We’ve been building Olva, an AI meeting assistant focused on helping people both during meetings and after them, and we recently shipped several updates based on user feedback:

• Better summaries, action items, and searchable meeting history
• Support for 87 languages and regional variants
• iOS and Android apps for in-person conversations and meetings
• Sticky notes for decisions, follow-ups, and action items
• Editable meeting summaries before sharing
• Automatic sticky notes generated from meeting action items

Olva is also botless, so it doesn’t join Zoom, Meet, or Teams as another participant. It runs privately alongside the meeting instead.

We’re now working on deeper integrations so notes, decisions, follow-ups, and tasks can flow into the tools people already use.

But before deciding what to build next, I’d genuinely love to hear from people who spend a lot of time in meetings:

What’s one feature you wish every AI meeting assistant had, but most still don’t?

Could be something for live meetings, note-taking, follow-ups, integrations, memory, privacy, or anything else.

Honest criticism is very welcome too.

We've been building OLVA, an AI assistant that works privately during conversations without bots joining your calls. Our desktop app has been helping people in online meetings for a while, but one request kept coming up:

"I wish I could use this outside of Zoom or Teams."

So we built a mobile app.

Now OLVA can help during networking events, interviews, client meetings, conferences, coffee chats, or even conversations in another language. It can detect questions automatically, provide contextual answers, surface live insights, fact-check claims, and answer follow-up questions based on the conversation—all privately from your phone.

We're already thinking about what comes next, and I'd rather hear from real users than make assumptions.

If you had an AI assistant available during any conversation, what feature would make it indispensable for you?

Some ideas we've discussed:

• Better memory of previous conversations with the same person
• Relationship history and reminders
• Live translation and cultural context
• Negotiation or sales coaching
• Networking assistance (remembering people and follow-ups)
• Something completely different?

I'm genuinely curious where people think this kind of assistant should go. We'd love to build features that solve real problems rather than just adding AI for the sake of it.

We've been building OLVA, an AI assistant that works privately during conversations without bots joining your calls. Our desktop app has been helping people in online meetings for a while, but one request kept coming up:

"I wish I could use this outside of Zoom or Teams."

So we built a mobile app.

Now OLVA can help during networking events, interviews, client meetings, conferences, coffee chats, or even conversations in another language. It can detect questions automatically, provide contextual answers, surface live insights, fact-check claims, and answer follow-up questions based on the conversation—all privately from your phone.

We're already thinking about what comes next, and I'd rather hear from real users than make assumptions.

If you had an AI assistant available during any conversation, what feature would make it indispensable for you?

Some ideas we've discussed:

• Better memory of previous conversations with the same person
• Relationship history and reminders
• Live translation and cultural context
• Negotiation or sales coaching
• Networking assistance (remembering people and follow-ups)
• Something completely different?

I'm genuinely curious where people think this kind of assistant should go. We'd love to build features that solve real problems rather than just adding AI for the sake of it.

We've been building OLVA, an AI assistant that works privately during conversations without bots joining your calls. Our desktop app has been helping people in online meetings for a while, but one request kept coming up:

"I wish I could use this outside of Zoom or Teams."

So we built a mobile app.

Now OLVA can help during networking events, interviews, client meetings, conferences, coffee chats, or even conversations in another language. It can detect questions automatically, provide contextual answers, surface live insights, fact-check claims, and answer follow-up questions based on the conversation—all privately from your phone.

We're already thinking about what comes next, and I'd rather hear from real users than make assumptions.

If you had an AI assistant available during any conversation, what feature would make it indispensable for you?

Some ideas we've discussed:

• Better memory of previous conversations with the same person
• Relationship history and reminders
• Live translation and cultural context
• Negotiation or sales coaching
• Networking assistance (remembering people and follow-ups)
• Something completely different?

I'm genuinely curious where people think this kind of assistant should go. We'd love to build features that solve real problems rather than just adding AI for the sake of it.

One thing I've run into lately is that more of my meetings switch between languages.

For example, someone asks a question in English, another person responds in French, then someone else mixes in technical terms from another language. Most meeting assistants I've tried either get confused or force you to choose a single language before the meeting starts.

It made me wonder if AI meeting tools should just detect languages automatically instead of assuming every meeting is monolingual.

How do you handle multilingual meetings today?

• Do you record separate notes?
• Use live translation?
• Just hope the transcript is good enough?

Curious if this is a niche problem or something more people are running into as teams become more global.

Hi Reddit 👋

One thing we've always found interesting about meetings is how often the conversation suddenly goes somewhere unexpected.

Someone mentions a subject/term you've never heard of.

A technical term/statistics  gets dropped.

A question comes up and you know the answer is probably out there—you just don't have it right now.

It got us thinking: What if you had a private assistant that could quietly help during the meeting itself?

Not a bot joining the call. Not another transcript generator. Just something that could help you understand what's being discussed, answer questions, verify information, and keep up when conversations move quickly.

That idea eventually turned into OLVA.ai , which we've been building over the last few months.

We are less interested in pitching it here and more interested in the problem itself:

What's the most frustrating part of meetings for you?

Have you ever been caught off guard by a question you should have known the answer to?

Do current meeting AI tools actually solve your problems, or are they mostly note-taking tools?

Would genuinely love to hear how others think about this.