Audio Action

This action will allow sound playback directly in user chat. You can add a sound file as an external URL or upload it to Xenioo storage.

Settings

The action uses the following settings:

Setting	Description	Parsed
From Url	The audio will be retrieved from the specified URL.	⛔
Upload To Storage	The audio will be retrieved from your Xenioo Account storage.	⛔
Audio URL	The fully qualified URL of the audio source	✅
Audio Title	The title of the audio	✅
Audio Author	The author of the audio	✅
Album Art	Url or Storage based source for the audio album art	✅
Background Art	Url or Storage based source for the audio background art	✅
Create Content Card	If enabled, Xenioo will automatically try to create a content card using as much information as possible of the above settings. Not all channels support content cards.	⛔
Embed in speech	If enabled, this flag will force Xenioo to enclose the audio source in a <audio> SSML tag.	⛔

Remarks

When using speech embedding make sure to follow the Alexa guidelines for audio format.

Trigger

This action has no triggers.

Variables

This action produces the following variables after being executed:

Variable	Description
current_audio_action	The unique id of the audio action being executed. This id is consumed by IoT actions to stop and resume streaming.

Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

Channel	Availability
Facebook	Audio will be by default embedded as attachments. Facebook 25MB limit will apply.
WhatsApp	Provider Dependant. Please see relevant information.
Telegram	Fully Available without content card.
Web	Fully Available without content card.
Alexa	Fully Available.
Google Assistant	Fully Available.
Slack	Fully Available without content card.
API	Fully Available.

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions. Any account can use this action regardless of subscription level.