---
title: "Speak in a meeting session"
method: POST
path: "/meeting_sessions/{id}/actions/speak"
tags: ["Meeting Session Actions"]
---

# Speak in a meeting session

`POST /meeting_sessions/{id}/actions/speak`

Sends audio / text-to-speech into a meeting session.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Request body

- SpeakMeetingSessionRequest
  - `interrupt` boolean — If true, interrupt any currently playing audio to speak this text immediately.
  - `text` string, required — Text for the bot to speak.
  - `voice` string — Voice identifier to use for this utterance. When supplied, it overrides the session-default voice configured at creation; otherwise the speak action uses that session default.

## Response `202`

The speak action was accepted and is being processed.

- ActionAcceptedResponse
  - `data` object, required
    - `accepted` true, required

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized. On api.telnyx.com, authentication is enforced by the API gateway before the request reaches the Meeting service, so a missing or invalid API key returns the standard Telnyx error envelope (`{"errors": [{"code": "10009", ...}]}`) rather than the single-`error` shape below.
- `403` — The authenticated credential is not permitted to perform this operation.
- `404` — Not Found
- `409` — Conflict
- `413` — Payload Too Large
- `422` — Unprocessable Entity, including an unsupported capability
- `429` — Authentication is temporarily overloaded. Retry after the number of seconds in `Retry-After`.
- `500` — Internal Server Error
- `502` — Text-to-speech generation or meeting audio delivery failed.
- `503` — A required feature or dependency is not configured or authentication is unavailable.

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