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Live monitoring gives supervisors real-time visibility and control over ongoing calls — essential for QA, agent tuning, and stepping in when a conversation needs a human. Availability is plan-gated (live_monitoring).

Live transcript

The dashboard lists all active calls in your workspace. Open one and the transcript streams in live — including interim (in-progress) transcription — so you read the conversation as it happens, with no audio needed.

Listen (silent monitoring)

Click Listen to hear the call in real time:
  • You join as a hidden participant — neither the caller nor the assistant’s behavior changes; nobody hears you.
  • Audio is receive-only.
  • Every listen-in is audit-logged (who listened to which call, when).

Whisper (coach the AI)

Send the assistant a text instruction mid-call that the caller never hears:
  • The instruction is injected into the active agent’s guidance — e.g. “offer the 20% retention discount” or “wrap up, the customer is in a hurry”.
  • Optionally trigger an immediate spoken response so the assistant acts on your instruction right away instead of on its next turn.
  • Whispers are recorded as call events.

Barge-in

Need to speak yourself? Barge in to join the call audibly — a three-way conversation with the caller and the assistant. Useful for a quick correction without ending the AI session.

Takeover

Full human handover: the assistant is muted instantly — no goodbye, no further AI speech — and you continue the conversation alone. Transcription and call artifacts keep running so the record stays complete. The takeover is logged as a call event.

Hang up

Hang up ends the call for everyone by tearing down the call session (same path the agent uses). Use this when the conversation should stop immediately — unlike Disconnect, which only leaves your supervisor session. Available in the monitoring UI, Public API, and MCP tool live_call_control.

Permissions & audit

Supervisor actions are restricted to workspace members with the live_monitoring plan feature. Every action — listen, whisper, barge-in, takeover, hangup — leaves an audit trail entry, which matters both for internal governance and for GDPR accountability.
During campaigns, keep the active-calls view open with live transcripts. You’ll spot prompt problems within the first handful of calls — whisper corrections in, then fix the prompt for the rest of the batch.