The question continues after the pause: choose when to ask Aurora for help

Listen for the condition after the pause

Imagine this question: “Can you send the draft…?” There is a pause. Then comes “…if I confirm the figures first?” Asking for a reply before hearing the condition can leave you working with an incomplete question. If you do not know whether the speaker has finished, you can wait and request help manually once the necessary context is available.

Aurora offers optional help through Propose reply or Ctrl+Enter and can request advice after a configurable silence. Silence is a timing signal. It does not establish that a question is complete or that you know its conditions.

Two decisions within one dialogue

This conversation is invented, not a customer transcript:

• Other speaker: “Can you send the draft…?”
• A pause while they consult their notes.
• Other speaker: “…if I confirm the figures first? They have not been validated yet.”
• You: “I can prepare it; I will confirm sending it once we have the figures.”

The opening proposes an action. The continuation adds a condition and an unresolved state. Advice prepared from the opening alone would need reviewing when the rest arrives. We do not predict what a particular model would suggest. The example identifies information to preserve when assessing any proposal.

Choose when to request help

Manual request. Leave automatic advice off if you want to decide when to ask. Wait for the continuation, then use Propose reply or Ctrl+Enter when you want a suggestion using the available recent context.

Silence-delay advice. If you enable it, review the configured delay. Public documentation says a value of 0 requests immediate help. Another delay changes request timing; it does not guarantee recognition of a completed turn or that the next sentence will arrive first.

Advice pause. If you want to keep reading while the conversation changes pace, Aurora can pause advice without stopping transcription. You need not request a reply to every fragment to use captions.

There is no universal number of seconds for interviews, meetings or classes. A pause may mean checking a note, hesitating or starting another sentence. If a commitment matters, confirm its condition with the person before sending it.

Review the content of the proposal

Before using help, look for three elements: the action you accept, the condition still pending and who confirms the next step. In this example, “I will send the draft” omits prior validation. “I will prepare the draft and confirm sending it once the figures are ready” preserves the dependency.

These are alternatives written for this guide, not promised assistant outputs. The application does not decide whether you can accept a task.

Requirements and next step

The official information describes Aurora as Early Access for Windows 11 x64. Live assisted sessions require the pipeline running with Both, combining recent system-audio and microphone context. Optional help sends text and guidance to Codex/OpenAI and needs internet, an account, access and available usage limits. An Aurora licence does not include unlimited assistant use. Core captions and translation are a separate local workflow.

Microsoft Live Captions and Chrome’s guide were consulted on 25 October 2026 as captioning references, not as evidence for this assistant.

Read the Aurora introduction and downloads and requirements. To prepare your decision, rehearse the fictional dialogue and consider whether manual requests fit better than relying on a pause.