How to: Listen to audio from your Ava cameras

Last modified: Friday November 04, 2022.

From Video view, you can listen to audio being picked up by your Avigilon Ava cameras.

Depending on the configuration profile of the camera, you can listen to live audio and/or playback recorded audio.

The ability to record audio or listen to live audio is a zero-cost licensed feature. For jurisdictions where it is legal to do so, you can add an audio license to your Aware deployment. Speak to your Avigilon Alta Partner or Sales representative.

When your audio license has been applied, new sound-related elements appear in the Aware user interface, including the Listen to audio controls and the Audio levels layer.

The ability to listen to audio rules follow the globally-configured microphone capabilities for your deployment. See How to: Configure the global audio settings for your deployment.

Task — Enable the sound equalizer and audio levels layers

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Video view Video view.
  2. Select Layers button Layers.
  3. Select Show sound equalizer buttonSound equalizer.
    Listen to audio icons Listen to audio is displayed on the views from your Avigilon Ava cameras.
  4. Select Audio levels layer button Audio levels to add audio level information to the timelines.

Task — Listen to live sounds

Listening to live audio requires that the Devices | Configuration settings are configured to stream live audio.

See How to: Create Configuration profiles for your devices.

  1. Ensure you have enabled to sound equalizer layer.
  2. Click Show sound equalizer icon to listen to the sounds being picked up by your Avigilon Ava camera.
    Any audio being picked up by the selected Avigilon Ava camera is played to the speakers defined by your computer.
    The relative volume of the sound being captured is shown by the Audio level meter level meter.
  3. Click Listen to audio - active icon to stop the audio being played.

Task — Listen to recorded sounds

Listening to audio in playback requires that the Devices | Configuration settings are configured to record the audio.

Depending on your Devices | Configuration settings, the audio might be intermittent — if, for example, it is configured to only record sounds when there are ongoing sound events.

See How to: Create Configuration profiles for your devices.

  1. Click Playback mode Playback mode for the camera of interest.
  2. Drag the timeline for the selected camera to the period of interest.
  3. Click Show sound equalizer icon to listen to the recorded sounds from your Avigilon Ava camera.
  4. Click Listen to audio - active icon to stop the audio being played.