u/meetOLVA

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.