Live talkdown
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The Giraffe Edge Controller supports live audio talk down. The feature can be accessed via a normal phone number, via a SIP integration, or via a HTTP endpoint.
The easiest way of using the live talkdown feature is with the phone service.
To perform a talkdown, simply dial the appropriate local number on your phone, and enter the pin code when requested. You will then be instantly connected and anything you say will be echoed out of the spakers. Simply hangup to end the session.
Before the phone talkdown feature can be used, it may have to be enabled on the speaker settings page:
If you want to generate a new pin code (invalidating the old one), simply press Generate New Pin Code
If you have more than one Edge Controller on a site, you can use the site broadcast pin. When this pin is used, your voice will be broadcasted out of all of the devices on the site simultaneously.
Each Edge Controller has a SIP address, which can be accessed via a cloud PBX. Giraffe use Twilio for handling call routing.
To use the SIP integration, your SIP client must be able to register as an extension on our cloud PBX.
Please note that we do not support the Edge Controller acting as a SIP client or registering as an extension on your PBX. Giraffe are always the SIP server, and you must register as an extension on our PBX.
Please contact Giraffe support for detail on how to setup the SIP integration.
A simple HTTP endpoint is available, which you can send PCM audio data to via a HTTP POST request. Any data sent to the endpoint will automatically be broadcast out of the speaker of the Edge Controller.
We can also support a websocket connection. Audio data is split into segments and sent as Base64 encoded chunks.
Please contact Giraffe support for more details on the HTTP integration.
At the moment we do not support audio talkdown directly from a microphone connected to your computer. This is something that we are working on and will be available in the future.
