Who this is for
There are two ways to listen to a live call:- Business owners - open the dashboard, see your live calls, tap Listen. No code.
- Developers - build listening into your own product with the API below. Your customers listen inside your app, on your brand.
Listening from the dashboard
Open Live Monitor in the dashboard, pick a number, and any live call on it appears in the list. Tap Listen and you hear both sides in real time - the caller and the AI - in sync. When the call ends, the player tells you. That is all a business owner needs. The rest of this page is for developers.Building listening into your own app
The flow has three steps: list the live calls, open the listen socket, then join the audio stream.1. List live calls
Optional query parameter
?source=dashboard narrows the list to numbers added through the dashboard. Without it, every monitored number on your key is included - which is what you want when you manage numbers through the API.2. Open the listen socket
Connect a WebSocket with the call id and your API key:
Keep the socket open while listening. It carries control messages - most importantly:
3. Join the audio
Audio streams over managed WebRTC, not the WebSocket. Join with the standardlivekit-client library using the url, token, and room from the connected message:
customer-audio (the caller) and ai-audio (the agent) - which your player mixes automatically when both are attached. Two tracks means you could also show separate volume meters, or mute one side.
The token is listen-only: it cannot publish audio into the call, and it only works for that one room.
Behaviour and guarantees
- Zero effect on the call. The audio stream only opens while someone is actually listening. If anything in the monitoring path fails, the call continues normally - the caller never notices.
- Isolation. Ownership is checked when listing calls and again when the listen socket connects. One account can never hear another account’s calls.
- Multiple listeners can join the same call at once.
- Listen-only today. Speaking into the call and taking over from the AI are planned for a later stage.
Related
- Live Monitor overview - what monitoring is, pricing, enabling it from your app
- Live monitor toggle (API) - turn monitoring on or off per number