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Voice Agents are the conversational cores of your phone lines and widgets. Each agent is fully configured through a settings dashboard, giving you control over their identity, greeting messages, vocal tone, and transfer rules.
Voice Agent Settings Panel (Light)

Configuration Fields

When creating or editing a Voice Agent, you will interact with the following sections in your dashboard:

1. Identity & Prompting

  • Agent Name: The label representing your agent (e.g., “Front Desk Receptionist”).
  • Short Description: A internal summary of the agent’s purpose.
  • System Prompt (Personality): Detailed text instructions guiding the agent’s behavior, tone, goals, and logic boundaries.
  • Inbound Greeting Message: The opening sentence spoken by the agent when a customer dials into your line.
  • Outbound Greeting Message: The opening sentence spoken by the agent when dialling out during scheduled campaigns.

2. Success Outcomes

Outcomes allow you to define semantic goals that the agent should track during a call.
  • Tag: A short uppercase tag (e.g. meeting_scheduled, support_resolved).
  • Instruction: The condition describing when to trigger the tag (e.g., “Trigger when the user confirms they want to schedule an appointment at a specific time”).

3. Voice Configuration

Choose your agent’s voice profile and language:
  • Language Filter: Search profiles by language (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin, etc.).
  • Local Accents: Features specialized local accents, including Nigerian English, Spanish, and French.
  • Voice Previews: Click the Play button next to any voice selection in the dropdown to hear a sample audio clip before applying it.

4. Knowledge Base

  • Select KB: Link one of your pre-configured Knowledge Base sources to the agent.
  • Enable Retrieval: Switch this toggle ON to allow the agent to fetch answers from your documents during calls.

5. Transfer & Escalation

Enable your voice agent to route calls to human representatives:
  • Transfer Phone Number: The destination phone number (e.g., +1555... in E.164 format) to redirect the caller to.
  • Transfer Trigger Instructions: Instructions telling the agent when to trigger the call forwarding (e.g. “If the user gets frustrated or asks to speak with a human agent, initiate a transfer.”).

6. Call Settings

  • Record Conversation: Toggles audio call recording for transcripts and logs.
  • Play Disclaimer: Toggles playing an automated recording disclosure at the start of the call.
  • Greeting Interruptible: Toggles whether the customer can speak over the agent’s initial greeting.