Abstract: Techniques for monitoring an audio stream for triggering events are disclosed, where the triggering events may include a particular sound identified in the audio stream. In addition, the techniques include detecting the particular sound in the audio stream and/or providing an event notification to a user device via a network connection. A user device can request permission to initiate a two-way audio stream between the computing device and the user device. Further, the techniques may include receiving an indication to initiate the two-way audio stream with the user device. In addition, the techniques may include providing an alert that permission has been granted to initiate the two-way audio stream. Also, the device may include initiating the two-way audio stream with the user device.

Abstract: A method for natural language-based interaction with a vision-based monitoring system. The method includes obtaining a request input from a user, by the vision-based monitoring system. The request input is directed to an object detected by a classifier of the vision-based monitoring system. The method further includes obtaining an identifier associated with the request input, identifying a site of the vision-based monitoring system from a plurality of sites, based on the identifier, generating a database query, based on the request input and the identified site, and obtaining, from a monitoring system database, video frames that relate to the database query. The video frames include the detected object. The method also includes providing the video frames to the user.