Contact Centre Feature

Live Call Monitoring: Listen, Whisper, Barge

Live call monitoring lets a supervisor join a contact centre call that is already in progress. Pick an active call from the supervisor view, choose listen, whisper or barge, and the platform rings the supervisor's phone and joins them to that call's conference. Listen is silent, whisper reaches only the agent, and barge joins the full conversation.

No hardware

Browser-based agents

Seats from Rs 1,500/agent/month

What Call Monitoring gives you

Supervisors join a live queue call in one of three modes: listen silently, whisper to the agent only, or barge in so both sides hear them.

Three modes, one action

Listen to hear the call silently, whisper to coach the agent without the customer hearing, or barge to speak to both.

Coach during the call, not after it

A supervisor can join while the conversation is live, which is when intervention still changes the outcome.

Active calls listed for you

The supervisor view lists connected queue calls, so there is no hunting for a call ID.

Faster escalation handling

When a call is going wrong, a supervisor can barge in instead of promising the customer a callback.

New-agent ramp

Whisper lets a new agent take real calls with a supervisor quietly on the line.

How Call Monitoring works

End to end, in the order it actually happens.

  1. 1

    A supervisor opens the list of active queue calls.

  2. 2

    They pick a call and choose listen, whisper or barge.

  3. 3

    The platform rings the supervisor's phone number.

  4. 4

    When the supervisor answers, they join that call's conference in the chosen mode.

  5. 5

    The supervisor hangs up to leave; the agent and customer stay connected.

What Call Monitoring does not do

Worth knowing before you build a process around it.

  • Monitoring works on calls routed through a contact centre queue and connected to an agent. It does not apply to calls placed outside the contact centre.
  • The supervisor joins on a phone number they provide, not inside the agent desktop.
  • Monitoring a live conversation carries notice and consent obligations that vary by jurisdiction and by what your call opening announces. Confirm your own position before enabling it broadly.

Common uses

  • Supervisor coaching

  • Spot checks on live calls

  • Escalation rescue

  • New-agent training

Used most in

BPOFinancial ServicesInsuranceHealthcare

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Call Monitoring FAQs

What is Call Monitoring in a contact centre?

Live call monitoring lets a supervisor join a contact centre call that is already in progress. Pick an active call from the supervisor view, choose listen, whisper or barge, and the platform rings the supervisor's phone and joins them to that call's conference. Listen is silent, whisper reaches only the agent, and barge joins the full conversation.

How does Call Monitoring work?

1. A supervisor opens the list of active queue calls. 2. They pick a call and choose listen, whisper or barge. 3. The platform rings the supervisor's phone number. 4. When the supervisor answers, they join that call's conference in the chosen mode. 5. The supervisor hangs up to leave; the agent and customer stay connected.

What does Call Monitoring not do?

Monitoring works on calls routed through a contact centre queue and connected to an agent. It does not apply to calls placed outside the contact centre. The supervisor joins on a phone number they provide, not inside the agent desktop. Monitoring a live conversation carries notice and consent obligations that vary by jurisdiction and by what your call opening announces. Confirm your own position before enabling it broadly.

Which industries use Call Monitoring most?

BPO, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare. Typical uses are supervisor coaching, spot checks on live calls, escalation rescue, new-agent training.

What is a cloud contact center?

A cloud contact center is call center software that runs in the cloud instead of on office hardware. Agents take and make calls from a browser, calls are distributed through queues (ACD), and supervisors watch live status and recordings online. Edesy's contact center is voice-focused and priced per agent per month.

How is CCaaS different from a traditional call center setup?

CCaaS (contact center as a service) needs no PBX, desk phones or servers. You pay per agent seat each month plus call minutes, add or remove agents as needed, and agents can work from anywhere with a browser and a headset.

Set up Call Monitoring for your team

Seats are provisioned with Edesy. Seats from Rs 1,500 per agent per month, calls at Rs 0.50/min, prices excluding GST.