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Asking AVAY a Question Out Loud, Mid-Meeting

21 August 2026

Yes — say its name mid-call and AVAY answers out loud, using what's been said in this meeting and every one before it that you were part of. It takes a couple of seconds, the room hears the answer with you, and if you'd rather nobody else hear it, ⌘K opens a private line only you see.

Diagram showing a spoken question passing through the live transcript, a search across past meetings and any attached systems, before returning as an audible answer in the room. captured live no match yet still unanswe… answer found 1 Question spoken addressed by name 2 Transcript match flags direct address 3 History search checks past meetings 4 Connector check queries attached systems 5 Answer spoken read aloud to the room
How a spoken question turns into a spoken answer

How to address it mid-call

AVAY listens to the whole call, but it only speaks up when someone addresses it directly — 'AVAY, what did we quote them,' 'hey AVAY, when's that due.' It doesn't interrupt unprompted and it doesn't chime in on things said near it that weren't asked of it. That's a deliberate line: the AI in the room is there to answer, not to moderate.

What it searches before it answers

When you ask it something, it isn't guessing from general knowledge. It checks the live transcript of the call happening right now, then the transcripts of every past meeting you were part of, and finally any connector your team has attached — a CRM record, a ticket, a doc. If the answer to 'what discount did we agree' sits in a call from six weeks ago, that's where it comes from, not from a plausible-sounding number.

How long it takes, and what everyone hears

The answer comes back in a couple of seconds — long enough to search, short enough that the conversation doesn't stall. It's spoken into the call for everyone on the line, and it gets written into the minutes next to the moment it was asked, with a note on where it came from. Anyone reading the follow-up later sees the question and the answer as part of the record, not as a private aside someone had to relay.

The private route: pulling up the coach

Press ⌘K during a call and a private line opens that only you can see and hear — the room has no idea you used it. It draws on the same transcripts and connectors, so it's useful for the moment right before you say a number out loud: checking what you actually quoted last time, or what a client's account history says, without exposing the question to the room. Sales calls and negotiations lean on this more than internal syncs do, for obvious reasons.

The limit: it only knows what was said

AVAY answers from what's actually in the transcripts and whatever systems are connected. If nobody has ever mentioned the number, the deadline, or the decision, it says so plainly instead of inventing something reasonable-sounding. That's a narrower promise than a general assistant makes, and it's the one worth trusting: an answer grounded in a specific meeting on a specific date beats a confident guess every time.

Who hears itWhat it draws onBest for
Ask AVAY out loudEveryone on the callLive transcript, past meetings, attached connectorsSettling a fact the whole group needs
⌘K private coachOnly youSame sources, plus room to think before you speakChecking a number before you commit to it out loud
Asking out loud versus pulling up the private coach
  1. 1 Say its name AVAY hears direct address in the live transcript and stops listening passively.
  2. 2 It scopes the question It decides whether the answer sits in this call, a past one, or a connected system.
  3. 3 It answers out loud The answer plays for the whole room, in a couple of seconds, not a rehearsed pause.
  4. 4 It attaches the source The minutes log where the answer came from so anyone can check it later.
What happens between the question and the answer

Common questions

Does the whole room hear the answer when I ask AVAY something?

Yes, by default — the answer plays in the call for everyone and gets logged in the minutes next to the question. If you don't want that, use ⌘K to open the private coach, which only you can see and hear.

What happens if AVAY doesn't know the answer?

It says it hasn't heard that mentioned in this meeting or any past one, rather than offering a guess dressed up as fact. If a connector has the answer — a ticket status, a CRM field — it'll pull that instead; if nothing has it, it tells you plainly.

How is the private coach different from asking out loud?

⌘K opens a line only visible and audible to the person who pressed it — nobody else on the call sees it happened. It draws on the same transcripts and connectors as the out-loud answer, so the content is identical, only the audience changes.

Does AVAY jump in on its own, or only when asked directly?

Only when addressed directly, by name. It doesn't interject on things said near it that weren't a question to it, so it won't hijack the conversation or answer things nobody asked.

Can it answer using information from outside the meeting, like a CRM record?

Only if a connector to that system has been attached by the team — it doesn't reach into anything on its own. Without a connector, its answers come strictly from what's been said across your meetings.

The short version

Say its name and AVAY answers out loud, in a couple of seconds, from what the call and its history actually said — or pull up ⌘K for the same answer without the room hearing you ask.

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AVAY is a video meeting platform that transcribes the call itself — no bot joins, because there is nothing to join. Start one at avay.ai, read how each part works in the documentation, or see what it costs.