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Listen, Whisper & Barge

Coaching a call while it is still running. One connection sits behind three settings for who can hear you, and moving from silent, to a word in the rep's ear, to openly on the line neither drops the call nor rings anybody again.

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D. Okaforwith Larkfield Group · Cold outbound03:54
monitor · rep is not interrupted
RepCustomerthe callSupervisorAUDIO PATHYou hear both sides. Neither hears you.
In this mode
  • You hear the call
  • The rep hears you
  • The customer hears you
Recorded as
One call, one recording

Supervisor joins are written to the call record with who joined, when, and in which mode.

The rep sees
A quiet indicator. No interruption.
Live - switch mode, watch who hears you
0
modes on one supervisor connection
0
of the three modes the customer never hears
0
re-dials needed to move between them

Product figures from the platform’s own defaults - not customer averages

The mechanism

How it works.

01

Pick the call, then the mode

Supervision is started from the live calls board, a row at a time. Your own extension is rung, answers itself, and you arrive already in the mode you chose rather than in a menu you then navigate.

02

Listen adds nothing to the call

The supervisor leg hears both sides and injects audio in neither direction. No badge appears on the rep's screen, no announcement is played to the customer, and the conversation itself is untouched.

03

Whisper reaches the rep only

Coaching audio is injected into the rep's own leg and does not cross into the conversation bridge, which is why the customer cannot hear it. Barge adds a second injection on the far party, and that is the entire difference between the two.

04

Change mode without re-dialing

Switching level opens a fresh listener at the new setting, puts it into the bridge you are already sitting in, then drops the old one. You are never rung again and the call underneath is never touched.

Where it sits

One moment in every call.

Every call passes through the same seven. Listen, Whisper & Barge is the lit one, and everything either side of it is a different page in this category.

  1. 01
    Number

    the line it arrives on or leaves from

  2. 02
    Route

    where the call is sent and to whom

  3. 03
    Dial

    placing it, and how many at once

  4. 04
    Connect

    the moment a person picks up

  5. 05
    Talk

    while the conversation is happening

  6. 06
    Wrap

    the code, the notes, the next step

  7. 07
    Record

    what is kept, and where it is kept

The specifics.

8 facts
Modes
Listen, whisper and barge, switched mid-session on the same supervisor leg
Started from
The live calls board, per row. Not the call bar, which only switches mode
Whisper path
Injected into the rep's leg; it never crosses into the conversation bridge
Barge
Adds one further injection per far party, so the customer hears you as well
The rep's view
No on-screen indicator. In listen mode nothing tells the rep you are there
The rep's call
Not re-dialed, not held, and its own recording carries on underneath
Permission
Tenant admin or telephony access, checked against the call before the supervisor leg is placed
Limits
A supervision leg cannot itself be supervised, held or transferred

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Power & Preview Dialing

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Answering-Machine Detection

Reps stop greeting voicemail. The line is judged person or machine before a headset is involved, so what lands in one is somebody who said hello.

IVR & Auto-Attendant

Decide what callers hear in the first ten seconds, and where the ones who press nothing end up. Fifteen starting templates, built as a step in the flow.

Call Queues

A caller who waits past the limit does not fall off the end. Four separate exits are picked in advance, behind the welcome, hold music and announcements.

Ring Strategies

Stop the same two people carrying the floor. Six answers to who gets asked first, changed on the queue you already have rather than built again from scratch.

Skills-Based Routing

A caller reaches somebody who can actually help. Agents short of the skill a queue asks for never see the call, and a failover catches what nobody can take.

Queue Callbacks

A caller presses a digit, hangs up and keeps their place in line. Repeat requests merge, so nobody rings the same person twice about one problem.

VIP Priority Routing

Your best account stops waiting behind everybody else. Flag the lead and they skip the welcome and the cap, while aging keeps ordinary callers from starving.

Dispositions & Wrap-Up

One code is the whole of a rep's paperwork. Twenty-six behaviors hang off it, so the task, the callback and the do-not-call mark happen on their own.

Smart Caller ID

A rep never has to choose which of your numbers to call from. Every one they may use is scored against the person being dialed, and they can still override.

Compliance Screening

The check runs before the number is dialed, not as a report on Monday. Federal DNC, known TCPA litigators and your own list, each block written down.

Phone Numbers

Buy the number and it already knows where to send its calls. Search live carrier inventory, filter by country or by the digits it ends with, then claim it.

Toll-Free Numbers

One number reaches a whole country and the caller pays nothing for it. Toll-free routes through the same flows and bills from the same wallet as local lines.

International Numbers

Selling into a country you have no office in still means a number that looks local. Four carrier providers, so a new market is a purchase, not a project.

Voicemail Boxes

A call nobody was going to answer still lands somewhere. Organization, team and personal boxes each decide who may listen, and every message is transcribed.

Business Hours & Holidays

Closed is a fact about the clock, not something each flow decides alone. Write the week and the holidays once and every queue and campaign shuts with you.

SMS & Text Conversations

Text from the numbers you already call on. The thread sits beside the calls to that contact rather than in a second app nobody on the floor ever opens.

Media Library & Voices

Everything a caller hears that is not a person. Before you replace a prompt, the page names the menus, queues and mailboxes still playing the one you have.

Contact Center

See listen, whisper & barge on your own floor.

Thirty minutes, your numbers and your data. We will set listen, whisper & barge up live and you can decide from the thing itself rather than from this page.

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