Voice Log

Write the day's log by saying it: a phrase over the radio turns what follows into an entry under your name, with the recording kept. The Log page keeps every day in order beside everything else that happened.

What the Voice Log Is For

On a shift, the things that matter get said on the radio and never written down. A gate opened, a car park filled, a medic left a position — everyone heard it, nobody logged it, and at the end of the night the occurrence book is written from memory. The voice log fixes that at the moment it happens. Say a phrase — "Control, log: relief gate opened" — and the words after the phrase are written to the day's log as an entry under your name, with the recording kept, so anyone can hear exactly what was said.

Security Ops → Log is the day's book. Voice entries sit in time order beside entries people typed in and beside everything the platform recorded itself: incidents declared and resolved, keyword alerts, signals, rooms stood down, issues raised and closed. Open any day and read it through, newest first or oldest first.

Saying an Entry

An entry is matched at the start of a transmission. You can address Control first — "Control, log …" or "Control, this is Sam, log …" — and the page skips past that. Everything after the trigger phrase becomes the entry. Some lines, and what each one logs:

• "Control, log: relief gate opened at four fifteen." — logs relief gate opened at four fifteen.
• "Log that, the north car park is full." — logs the north car park is full.
• "For the log, the medical team have left Gate C." — logs the medical team have left Gate C.
• "Control, this is Priya, note for Control, contractor van still on the concourse." — logs contractor van still on the concourse under Priya's name.
• "Log." on its own, with the entry in the same breath but nothing after the word — logs the whole transmission and marks it, so you can tidy it later.

Everything else said in the room is untouched: ordinary radio traffic stays ordinary radio traffic, and a transmission that mentions the word log in the middle of a sentence is not an entry. If an incident is live when the phrase is said, the entry is linked to it, so the incident's record and the day's log agree.

The Log Page

The page shows one day. The date control at the top steps back a day at a time or jumps to any date; Today brings you back. Beside it, Newest first and Oldest first switch the reading order — newest for keeping up, oldest for reading a shift through. Under the title, one chip per kind of line with its count for the day: click a chip to hide or show that kind. A room filter, a person filter and a search box narrow the day further, and Show everything clears them all.

Every line has its time to the second, a badge for what it is, the text, and who and where it came from. On a voice or typed entry:

• Click the text — Unfolds the entry: the full transmission as it was heard, the phrase that triggered it, any correction with who made it and when, and a link to the incident it was logged during.
• Play — Plays the transmission from the recording, right there on the page.
• Correct — Changes what the entry says. The original stays on the record, and the corrected entry shows corrected with your name and the time. Entries are never deleted.
• Open — On a platform line — an incident, an issue, a signal — goes to where that thing is worked.

Add entry, in the page header, types an entry by hand: what happened, an optional category, an optional room. It is timed when you save it and carries your name. Use it for anything that did not go over the radio — a phone call, a visitor, a handover note.

Today keeps itself up to date: a new entry appears within moments of being said, and you never need to refresh the page. Earlier days are the settled record. Entries are kept for just over a year and then deleted.

On Monitoring

Entries also appear on Incidents → Monitoring: on the pulse as a small notebook mark on the room's lane at the moment it was said, and in Just now as a quiet Log line — Log · Gate C: relief gate opened. Click either to open the entry on the Log page. An entry never changes the workspace's condition, never raises a signal and never counts towards a badge. A log line is a record, not an alarm — that is the point of it.

Setting It Up

1. Turn it on. Security Ops → Settings → Voice log, and the switch at the top. It applies to the next transmission.
2. Choose the phrases. Add the standard phrases gives you log, logging, log that, for the log, for the record and note for Control, which cover most teams. Add your own with Add a phrase: a name, the phrases (one per line), an optional category that shows on every entry it logs — Access, Medical, Handover — and optionally the rooms it applies to. A phrase with no rooms ticked applies to every room.
3. Try it. Say a few test lines in a room, then run Try it at the bottom of the tab: it shows every transmission from that room in the last few minutes and what each one would have logged. Nothing is written. This is how you find out how your phrase is actually heard before you rely on it.
4. Brief the team. One line is enough: "Say 'Control, log' and then what happened."

Good phrases are short and not something people say at the start of an ordinary message. Log works well because nobody opens a normal transmission with it. Avoid a phrase that is also a common opener — "Control, update" would log every update — and keep to a handful; the team has to remember them under pressure.

Privacy

Only the words after the trigger phrase are logged, and only from a transmission that starts with one. An entry carries the speaker's name because a log needs one. Entries are visible to people who can view Security Operations in your workspace, kept for just over a year and then deleted. The voice log adds no recording and no transcription of its own: it reads the transcripts your rooms already produce under their existing settings, and nothing here changes those.