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Outbound: Tavus broadcasts when Raven triggers a perception tool from camera, shared-screen, or audio input.

Configure perception tools: Perception tool calling and Perception.

message_type
string

conversation for conversation-layer app messages.

Example:

"conversation"

event_type
string

conversation.perception_tool_call.

Example:

"conversation.perception_tool_call"

timestamp
number

Unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) indicating when this event was created. Use this to build timestamped transcripts or reconstruct the timeline of a conversation.

Example:

1746000000.123

seq
integer

Monotonic per event; a higher seq was emitted later. Use with turn_idx as in Event ordering and turn tracking.

Example:

42

conversation_id
string

The unique identifier for the conversation.

Example:

"c123456"

turn_idx
integer

Turn index; increments when conversation.respond is processed. Groups utterances, tool calls, and speaking-state events for the same turn. See Event ordering and turn tracking.

Example:

3

properties
object

Tool name, modality from the perception step, arguments as returned by the model, optional non-empty frames for multimodal metadata.