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Live Companion

Live Companion is a narrow window that sits beside your meeting and streams the capture as it happens — transcript, translation, Checkpoints and the running summary. It's part of the web app, so it works wherever your meeting is: Zoom or Teams in the desktop app, Google Meet, or a Quick Note with no meeting at all.

Reading along on Zoom or Teams desktop

The browser extension can only see a meeting running in a browser tab. If your team lives in the Zoom or Teams desktop app, the Companion is how you read along: send a bot and keep the Companion open on the side.

The Live Companion pop-out — meeting header, live badge, bilingual transcript1234
  1. 1Meeting title, platform and capture state
  2. 2Live badge and the running clock
  3. 3Transcript · Summary (· Notes for a mic note)
  4. 4Languages to show — yours alone
The Companion window — a live, speaker-labeled transcript with the translation folded under each line.

Open it​

The Companion opens by itself. When you start a capture from Start ScribX with Join now, ScribX pops out a ~400×720 window and points it at the new capture; the tab you started from stays where it was.

  1. Open Start ScribX in the web app.
  2. Paste the meeting link and keep Join now.
  3. Click Start ScribX — the Companion window opens, shows Starting ScribX…, then switches to the live transcript as the bot joins.

Two things worth knowing:

  • Scheduled captures don't pop out. If you set a join time or picked a calendar event, ScribX takes you to the Scheduled page instead — there's nothing live to watch yet.
  • If a bot is already in that meeting, the Companion opens on that session rather than reporting an error. One bot per meeting; everyone shares the same transcript.
Blocked pop-up?

Browsers only allow a pop-up that a click asked for. If yours blocks it anyway, ScribX falls back to opening the Companion in the current tab — nothing is lost. Allow pop-ups for platform.scribx.app to get the side window back.

What's in the window​

The header — the meeting title, the platform (MEET · ZOOM · TEAMS · IN-BROWSER), and the state of the capture: connecting while the bot joins, then a red dot with Live and a running clock, and Ended when the meeting is over. A mic-level wave appears instead of the dot for a Quick Note.

Transcript — the same live stream the full page shows, speaker-labeled, scrolling as people talk.

Summary — the running write-up and the Checkpoints captured so far. Each Checkpoint carries a timestamp you can click to jump to that moment.

The Summary tab of the Live Companion — quick recap, overview and next steps
The Summary tab, mid-meeting — quick recap, overview by topic and next steps, each with a timestamp back into the transcript.

Notes — for a mic Quick Note only: a notepad for your own agenda and jottings. It takes Markdown, and what you write is woven into the AI summary at the end.

Animation: scrolling the Companion transcript, opening the language picker, switching to Summary
Reading along: the transcript streams, the language picker decides what each line shows, and Summary holds the write-up so far.

Read it in your language​

The globe control is a Languages to show picker, and it's yours alone — the person beside you can read the same meeting in another language.

  • Pick one language and each line shows only that.
  • Pick two or more and the lines stack: original on top, your translation underneath.
  • You can't deselect the last one — there's always something to read.

The languages offered are the ones the capture was started with. See Languages for how that's decided.

Share the Companion​

Owners get a Share button in the footer. It copies the Companion link — platform.scribx.app/recordings/<id>/live — which you can paste into the meeting chat.

Anyone who opens it without access sees Access restricted and a Request access button. Their request arrives in your Companion as a card with Approve and Deny, and a bell in the header counts the ones waiting. Approve and their window fills in with the live transcript — no page reload, no trip to the full app. See Access requests for the same flow elsewhere in ScribX.

Open the full page​

Open full in the footer opens the recording detail in a new tab — the player, the full write-up, sharing, participants and editing. The Companion is for reading along; the full page is for working with the meeting afterwards.

What's next?​