Opening Guide
Once a recording is ready, you can open it in the Session Rack and expand the Listening Guy panel below the notes. Choose Cue the listening guide to have Listening Guy open the conversation with a guide and questions you might ask. The app can save this guide with the recording, and reading a saved guide does not use a turn.
Asking Questions
In the Listening Guy panel, you can type a question about an instrument, section, or unfamiliar term into ask about this song… and choose Send. Listening Guy can read pinned notes and, as part of its response, mute or solo stems, move to another point in the recording, or pin a note. The conversation shows any actions it takes. Press Esc to clear solos and the active loop.
The line above the input shows how many turns you have left today. A failed reply does not use a turn, and retrying an interrupted reply does not use a second one. If a request fails, your question remains and the app shows any available retry instructions and support details. You can still use the mixer. The app can retain an interrupted request for retry when you return to your own saved recording in the same browser; follow the message in the panel before sending it again.
Choose Reset to clear the saved conversation for this split and start again. When you return, open Earlier session to see your saved conversation. Resetting removes that conversation and does not restore spent turns.
Check Its Descriptions
Listening Guy uses the recording's title, the names and labels of the stems, its duration, notes, any teaching instructions, and the conversation. Listening Guy does not receive the recording or its waveforms, so listen to check its descriptions.
In one demonstration, Listening Guy muted the requested stems but could not identify an exact moment in the recording, so students listened to find the passage themselves. You can pin a note at a point you want to revisit and return to it later. See Sample Activities for more ideas.
Daily Limits
The guest demo allows two successful replies across the browser session. Generating a guide counts toward that total. See Privacy & Limits for details.
Signed-in members receive a daily allowance of successful turns. Check Account or the chat panel for the remaining count, and see Splitter Basics for the Account tab. The count resets at midnight UTC, which is 8:00 PM Eastern during daylight time and 7:00 PM during standard time. Reading existing guides and conversations does not use a turn.
Course Work
Instructors can set vocabulary and listening tasks under Account Settings. Check the scope before saving. Class instructions apply to work assigned to that class, Personal instructions apply to your own Personal work, and guest work uses the default instructions.
Use Students on the Classes page to read conversations attached to your course's splits. Students check the acknowledgment for this access before assigning work to the course. Reading a conversation does not use a turn, and you cannot edit it. Listening Guy uses the Lab's model gateway. You can inspect its fixed system prompt under Prompt reference in Account Settings.