---
title: "Stop audio playback"
method: POST
path: "/calls/{call_control_id}/actions/playback_stop"
tags: ["Call Commands"]
---

# Stop audio playback

`POST /calls/{call_control_id}/actions/playback_stop`

Stop audio being played on the call.

**Expected Webhooks:**

- `call.playback.ended` or `call.speak.ended`

## Path parameters

- `call_control_id` string, required

## Request body

- PlaybackStopRequest
  - `overlay` boolean — When enabled, it stops the audio being played in the overlay queue.
  - `stop` string — Use `current` to stop the current audio being played. Use `all` to stop the current audio file being played and clear all audio files from the queue.
  - `client_state` string — Use this field to add state to every subsequent webhook. It must be a valid Base-64 encoded string.
  - `command_id` string — Use this field to avoid duplicate commands. Telnyx will ignore any command with the same `command_id` for the same `call_control_id`.

## Response `200`

Successful response upon making a call control command.

- object
  - `data` CallControlCommandResult
    - `result` string

## Other responses

- `422` — Unprocessable entity. The request was well-formed but could not be processed due to semantic errors. This includes validation errors, invalid parameter values, call state errors, conference errors, queue errors, recording/transcription errors, and business logic violations.
- `default` — Unexpected error

## Changes

> 78 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-08-17** `1571b0380bd7` — 3 breaking
  - the response's body type changed from `object` to no type for status `default`
  - the `errors/items/` response's property type changed from `object` to no type for status `default`
  - the `errors/items/code` response's property type changed from `integer` to `string`, and format from `int32` to `integer` for status `default`
- **2026-08-04** `8f5f4e537994` — 4 breaking
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `default`
  - the `errors/items/` response's property type changed from no type to `object` for status `default`
  - the `errors/items/code` response's property type changed from `string` to `integer`, and format from `integer` to `int32` for status `default`
  - the `errors/items/source/pointer` response's property format changed from `json-pointer` to no format for status `default`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/team-telnyx/apis/telnyx-api-2/changes/calls/:call_control_id/actions/playback_stop/post.md)

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