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What do these icons mean?

Ever wonder what some of the icons mean in Ava? Learn more for every version of Ava.

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Ava contains many icons, settings, and features. To help you understand what they mean, we have broken them down based on each Ava platform!


Ava Mobile Profile Icons

  1. &AvaName: This is your special Ava Name you can share with friends, family, colleagues, etc. If you click the box on the far right, your unique QR code makes it easy for others to find you!

  2. Settings: Find a variety of settings here such as curse word filter, light/dark mode, account information, etc.

  3. Help Center: This takes you to our Ava Help page with a variety of articles on how to use Ava.

  4. Support: Click here to be connected with a Customer Support Specialist.

  5. Subscription: This tells you information on your current subscription and how you can upgrade your account.

  6. Invite Friends: Click here to send an invite to friends to use Ava!

  7. Profile: This is where you find information about your account.

  8. Transcripts: Transcripts saved from a conversation are stored here.

  9. Start Subtitles: Pushing this button will start a conversation.

  10. Contacts: This is where you find all of your saved Ava contacts.

  11. Discover: Find a variety of Help articles here.

  12. QR Code: Display your Ava QR Code for others to join a group conversation

  13. Subscription Type: This is where you find your subscription type and when it expires.


Ava Mobile Conversation Icons

  1. Profile: takes you to your profile.

  2. QR Code: invite a participant to your conversation

  3. Invite: share your conversation to invite a participant

  4. Settings: get to your Ava settings

  5. End: End your conversation

  6. Accuracy: improve your accuracy with premium captions or invite a Scribe (these features are extra and require payment)

  7. Pause / Start: starts and pauses your captions.

  8. Add: invite a participant to your conversation or join someone's conversation

  9. Type: open a keyboard so you can type words or phrases for Ava to speak for you


Ava Web Profile Icons

  1. 🍔 3 Lines: Click this icon to remove or bring back the left menu bar

  2. 🎙️ Start Captions: This button will start a captioning session

  3. 🔍 Join a Conversation: Click this button to either join someone's conversation or share your unique link for someone to join your conversation!

  4. 📄 Transcripts: This is where you find your saved transcripts

  5. ↗️ Mini App: This is a downloadable desktop app that reduces your full-screen view and opens a caption box at the bottom of your screen

  6. ⚙️ Account Settings: Find profile information and adjust account settings here

    1. Full Name: edit your visible name in Ava

    2. Hearing Profile: choose between Hearing, Deaf, or Hard of Hearing

    3. 🎧 Scribe Time: see your remaining Scribe time (this is a Paid feature)

    4. Save Transcripts Automatically: Toggle between saving your captions into transcripts or not

    5. Language: choose the spoken language your captions are being spoken in

    6. Dark Mode: Toggle between dark and light mode

    7. Vocabulary Boost: Add names and words you use more frequently to Ava to improve your caption accuracy

  7. Contact Support: open a chat conversation with Team Ava for any questions

  8. 👤 Profile Menu: access to more settings


Ava Web Conversation Icons

  1. Ava Icon: open your saved transcripts

  2. 📄 Transcripts: open your saved transcripts

  3. ↗️ Mini App: This is a downloadable desktop app that reduces your full-screen view and opens a caption box at the bottom of your screen

  4. Contact Support: open a chat conversation with Team Ava for any questions

  5. 🔘 Caption Quality: choose between your free captions, premium captions, or Scribe captions

  6. 🎙️Microphone: Make sure this icon isn't crossed out to ensure Ava is "listening." If you don't want Ava to "listen" click this button and it crosses out

  7. 💬 Keyboard: This allows you to type something for Ava to speak for you

  8. 🎧 Get Scribe: Click this button to enable Scribe Captions (This is a paid service)

  9. 📽️ Ava Connect: add your Google Meets, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams meeting link to have captions directly in your online meeting

  10. ⚙️ Settings: see more settings for your Ava conversation. These settings include:

    1. ↕️ Font Size: Adjust the size of your captions

    2. 🌐 Conversation Mode: choose between interactive and read-only mode

    3. 🈲 Spoken Languages: Spoken language is the language in which speech is spoken and Ava is "listening" for

    4. Translate into: Update based on which language you want Ava to caption in.

    5. 💬 Voice Options: change the between 6 voice options for when you use text-to-speech via the keyboard

  11. 👤 Invite Participant: Click this button to invite someone to your conversation or join someone's conversation.

  12. 🛑 End Conversation: Click the red X to stop Ava's captions.


Ava's Desktop App Icons

  1. Ava Connect: add your Google Meets, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams meeting link to have captions directly in your online meeting

  2. Invite Participant: Click this button to invite someone to your conversation or join someone's conversation.

  3. Volume Controls: Adjust the volume of your computer with these buttons. Mute External speech (not coming from a video or video conference) with the far left mic icon.

  4. Microphone: Make sure this icon is blue to ensure Ava is "listening." If you don't want Ava to "listen" click this button and it will turn grey.

  5. Full Screen View: Click this icon to enlarge Ava to Full Screen View (pictured above).

  6. End Conversation: Click the X to stop Ava's captions.

  7. Ava Voice: Type your message on the keyboard and let Ava vocalize your responses

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