Listen Mode Controls

Listen mode turns Pluely into a live transcription and context assistant for calls, meetings, and coding sessions. Pluely v1 gives you a compact set of controls to manage a session while it's running, plus options that shape how the transcript is used and understood.

Session state buttons

A Listen session moves through a small set of states, each shown as a button in the overlay:

• Listening — the session is active and Pluely is transcribing live audio.
• Pause — click this while Listening to temporarily stop transcription without ending the session.
• Paused — the session is now paused; nothing is being transcribed, but the session and its transcript so far are kept.
• Resume — click this from Paused to pick the session back up and return to Listening.

This Listening → Pause → Paused → Resume cycle lets you step away from a call or mute the assistant mid-meeting without losing your place or having to start a brand-new session. Paused time never counts against your monthly live-transcription allowance, and while listening the composer shows a live countdown of the time you have left this month.

Auto responses: when the AI answers on its own

Next to the session controls sits the Auto responses chip — the control for Pluely's in-meeting copilot. It shows the current setting at a glance (Auto responses · On questions, · Every pause, or · Off) and opens a small panel where you pick:

• When to respond — when a question is asked (default), after every pause in speech, or off (manual Suggest only).
• Pace — Fast, Balanced, or Relaxed: how long Pluely waits after speech before responding, and the minimum spacing between automatic responses.

The panel also shows how many monthly AI requests you have left, since each automatic response uses one. The full behavior — question detection, cost guards, what each response is built from — is covered in Automatic responses. You can open this control before a session starts or change it live mid-session; the setting is remembered.

Listen context tabs

A row of context tabs tunes how the conversation is interpreted for the kind of session you're in:

• General — the default, balanced behavior.
• Interview — tuned for question-and-answer style conversations.
• Coding — tuned for pairing, reviews, and technical interviews.
• Meeting — tuned for multi-speaker discussions.
• Translate — tuned for translating what's being said.

Leave it alone and Pluely detects the context automatically from the conversation, moving the highlight as the discussion shifts. Click a tab yourself and your choice is pinned — auto-detection steps aside until the next session. Each context maps to a default prompt, and you can override that with any prompt (including your own) from the prompt picker.

Transcription language

Listen mode transcribes what it hears in the language you choose. The language list is fetched live, so newly supported languages appear automatically — English first, then Auto (multilingual) for mixed-language conversations, then dozens of languages alphabetically.

Pick "Auto (multilingual)" when the conversation may mix languages, or lock to a specific language for consistently clean transcription when you know what will be spoken. Set it before starting the session.

Putting it together

A typical session looks like: pick a transcription language (or leave it on Auto (multilingual)), pick your prompt, set Auto responses to how chatty you want the copilot (On questions for interviews, Every pause for translation), start Listening, and use Pause/Resume around breaks. Everything can be changed mid-session except the language.

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