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With livekit is it possible to make outbound call through twilio and have that appear as a new participant in a room?

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Yes, LiveKit can definitely work with Twilio to make outbound calls and add those callers as participants in a room. This setup usually involves configuring a Twilio SIP trunk for the outbound calls and then using LiveKit’s SIP APIs to kick off the calls. Once connected, the person you called will show up as a SIP participant in the room you’ve specified.

To help you better, could you please share a bit more about your setup?
• Are you using LiveKit Cloud or a self-hosted version?
• Are your calls being started from an AI agent, a backend script, or a web app?
• Do you need both inbound and outbound calling, or just outbound? Sources: <https://docs.livekit.io/agents/v0/quickstarts/outbound-calls/|Making calls using SIP | LiveKit Docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/sip|SIP overview | LiveKit Docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/agents/v0/voice-agent/telephony/|Integrating with Telephony | LiveKit Docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/sip/quickstarts/configuring-twilio-trunk|Create and configure a Twilio SIP trunk | LiveKit Docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/sip/trunk-outbound|SIP outbound trunk | LiveKit Docs>