Audio (usage)

Audio (explained)

Support for specific audio features may vary from system to system (see Your organization’s XProtect products and extensions). Access to recorded audio, or certain recorded audio features, may be restricted depending on your user permissions. Ask your system administrator if in doubt.

XProtect Smart Client supports both incoming and outgoing audio. You can listen to live recordings from microphones attached to cameras and use loudspeakers connected to cameras to talk to audiences. When you play back recorded video, you can hear the corresponding audio if the cameras have microphones, speakers, or both, attached. When you select a camera or view, the corresponding microphone or speaker is also selected by default.

The XProtect VMS system can record incoming audio from microphones attached to cameras, even if no video is being recorded.

If your views contain maps, these maps may contain microphones, speakers, or both. You can listen to audio by clicking the relevant microphone or speaker element. Click and hold down the mouse button for as long you want to listen or talk.

Talk to an audience

Talking to audiences through speakers attached to cameras is possible by using:

• The Audio pane on the left-hand side
• Overlay buttons
• Speaker functionality on maps

Outgoing audio transmitted through speakers attached to cameras may be recorded, but only on certain XProtect systems.