# Live meeting help > With Pro, ask the assistant about the meeting you're in while it's recorded. The four quick actions, your own questions, running notes and the companion window. - Page: https://samuraiscribe.com/docs/assistant/live-help/ - Checked with Samurai Scribe 0.65.0 - Plan: needs Pro While a meeting is being recorded, the assistant can read what has been said so far and help you in the moment. It can catch you up, suggest what to say or ask, or find a fact from your notes and past meetings. It answers only when you ask and never interrupts the call. Live meeting help needs Pro. Without Pro, the assistant still answers about your past meetings and notes during a recording; it just can't see the meeting in progress. ## What you need - **Pro**. A Pro trial that was already running when you updated to 0.65 counts until it ends; new installs start without a trial. - **A recording in progress, with the [live transcript](https://samuraiscribe.com/docs/glossary/#live-transcript) on.** The assistant follows the meeting through it. The live transcript needs **Mode** in **Settings → AI Models → Transcription** set to **As you speak**, the default, and the captions model downloaded (see [Your first meeting](https://samuraiscribe.com/docs/first-meeting/#download-the-models-before-your-first-run)). If it's off for this recording, the assistant says "The assistant follows a meeting through its live transcript, which is off for this recording." - **The assistant beside the meeting being recorded**, opened with Cmd+J on a Mac or Ctrl+J on Windows, or the **Assistant** tab of the [companion window](#the-companion-window). Open the assistant beside the meeting early: the model gets ready as soon as it's on screen beside a recording, so your first question doesn't wait for it to load. ## The four quick actions In an empty chat beside the meeting being recorded, the actions are listed with what each does. Once the chat has started, they sit as buttons above the message box. One click asks; there's no question to type. - **Catch me up**: "What was discussed, decided and asked so far" - **Help me answer**: "Points to say, from your notes and past meetings" - **Ask a good question**: "Questions worth asking right now" - **Add something useful**: "A fact or earlier decision worth saying" Answers are kept short, to read during a call. They draw on the meeting so far and, where it helps, your notes and past meetings. Without Pro, the buttons carry the Pro badge ("Help during a meeting is part of Samurai Scribe Pro"), and clicking one opens the upgrade page. ## Asking your own questions You can also type any question about the meeting so far, such as "What did Priya say about the launch date?" or "Has anyone agreed a budget yet?". With Pro, the answer reads the transcript so far as well as your notes and past meetings. An empty chat beside the recording says so: "Answers come from what has been said so far, your notes and past meetings." While the recording runs, each line of the live transcript is labelled with its side, your microphone or the call, or with the name of a person it recognises by [voice](https://samuraiscribe.com/docs/glossary/#voice-print), when the profile's **Recognise people by voice** is on. When the recording stops, the voices on each side are told apart. A label can be wrong, and the live transcript can mishear words, so check a figure before you repeat it. ## Running notes **Settings → Meeting Settings → Keep running notes during meetings** needs Pro and is off until you turn it on. While a meeting is recorded with the live transcript, the assistant keeps short notes on what has been discussed, decided and agreed. **Catch me up** can then answer at once, however long the meeting has run. - It uses the assistant's model in the background as the meeting goes, and never holds up a question or a dictation. - With a hosted model, the live transcript is sent to it as the meeting goes. ## The companion window The companion window is a small window that floats over your other apps, so your notes and the assistant stay in reach during a call. The companion window itself is free; live meeting help in its **Assistant** tab needs Pro. **Opening it.** From any app, press **Open Companion Window**: Ctrl+Option+N on a Mac, Win+Alt+N on Windows. Press it again to put the window away. You can change the keys in **Settings → Hotkeys**. - It opens the meeting being recorded, or else the meeting on screen. - With neither, the keys bring Samurai Scribe to the front. - If Samurai Scribe's window is full screen, the meeting's **Notes** open in it instead. **What it shows.** The meeting's name and its tabs: the transcript, its documents, and **Notes**, which the window makes if the meeting has none yet. Then an **Assistant** tab, with the quick actions while the meeting records. **Its buttons**, in the title bar: - **Mark this moment in your notes**, while recording: puts a link to the current moment of the transcript into the Notes, at your cursor if you're typing there. Clicking the link later opens the meeting at that moment. - **The eye**: hides the window from screen sharing, or shows it again. It is hidden by default. Some sharing apps don't honour this, so check before relying on it. A hidden window is also missing from your own screenshots and screen recordings. **Settings → Appearance → Hide the companion window from screen sharing** is the same switch. - **The pin**: **Keep on top of other apps**. Unpinned, the window goes away when you click into another app; the keys bring it back. - **Open the meeting**: the full window, on this meeting. - **Close**. ## Which model answers, and what is sent Live meeting help uses the assistant's model, chosen in **Settings → AI Models**, in the **Summarization** card's **Assistant** row (see [Which model answers](https://samuraiscribe.com/docs/assistant/#which-model-answers)). - **With a model on your computer**, the transcript and your notes stay on your computer. - **With a hosted model**, each question sends that provider the most recent part of the live transcript (and earlier parts if the assistant reads them), the running notes if they're on, the start of the meeting's **Notes**, and what it reads from your notes and past meetings to answer. With running notes on, the live transcript is also sent as the meeting goes. The [network disclosure](https://samuraiscribe.com/network) lists every request the app can make.