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What is the Knowledge Base?

The Knowledge Base lets your voice agent access specific knowledge sources. You can upload PDFs, URLs, or text documents, and your agent automatically uses this information during conversations. This information extends your AI’s knowledge of specific topics and enables more precise, more relevant answers. While AI models have broad general knowledge, they can be enriched with up-to-date or specialized information through additional data sources. New in version 2.0: Modern toggle-based activation, real-time token monitoring, and prompt preview for voice agents.

Where do I find the Knowledge Base?

1. Main navigation (left sidebar)

In the left sidebar you will find the “Knowledge Base” entry. This is where you manage all data sources centrally (upload, view, edit, delete).

2. Voice Wizard - Knowledge Base tab

The Voice Wizard has a “Knowledge Base” tab where you select which data sources should be activated for your specific voice agent. Voice Wizard - Knowledge Base tab

Uploading data sources

There are 3 ways to add knowledge:
  • Max. file size: 15 MB
  • Max. text content: Roughly 20-30 pages of text (depending on formatting and text density)
  • Important: Use high-quality PDFs with clear, extractable text. Scanned images or documents without real text cannot be processed.
Example: Product manuals, technical specifications, company policies as PDF.
  • Automatic scraping (downloading and extracting) of the website content
  • Max. text content: Roughly 20-30 pages of extracted text
Some websites prohibit automatic scraping through their configuration or security settings. In such cases we recommend copying the relevant text manually and adding it as a text data source.
Example: FAQ pages, product descriptions, support documentation on your company website.
  • Direct text entry in the text field
  • Max. text content: Roughly 8,000 - 12,000 words
Example: Current company information, temporary announcements, FAQ texts.
Upload options for data sources

Activating data sources for voice agents

How to connect a data source to your voice agent:
  1. Go to Voice Wizard -> Knowledge Base tab
  2. Find the desired data source in the list
  3. Enable the toggle switch next to the data source
  4. The context is automatically appended to the end of your main prompt, formatted as follows:
This formatted context is automatically appended to the end of your main prompt and thus becomes part of the instruction sent to the AI.

Token limits & recommendations

What are tokens? Tokens are the units in which AI models process text. One token corresponds approximately to:
  • ~1.5 tokens per German word
  • ~1.3 tokens per English word
  • Example: 6,000 German words = approx. 9,000 tokens (roughly)
Important: The token calculation is an approximation and not exact. It serves as a guideline. If your main prompt (the base prompt you wrote) together with all activated data sources exceeds roughly 9,000 tokens, a yellow warning appears in the Voice Wizard. Above 12,000 tokens, a red warning appears. Why these limits?
  • With too much context, the AI may struggle to process all information correctly
  • Response quality can degrade — the AI might provide inaccurate or irrelevant information
  • In extreme cases the AI may start to “hallucinate” (invent false information)
  • These limits are based on our experience for optimal results and precise answers
Important to understand:
  • These are recommendations, not hard technical limits
  • You decide for yourself how many data sources you want to activate
  • The warnings serve as a guideline for best results
  • To safeguard response quality, you are prevented from uploading individual data sources that already exceed the red limit on their own
  • Note: The token limits (9,000 / 12,000) are configurable if needed — contact us if you require individual adjustments

Best practices for optimal results

Yellow token warning Red token warning

Prompt preview

New feature: You can now display the complete prompt including all activated data sources. How it works:
  1. In the Voice Wizard -> prompt section
  2. Click the “Preview” button
  3. A modal window shows the complete context that is sent to the AI
Important: The preview only shows data sources that were activated via the toggle switch. The old %%context:name%% syntax is not shown in the preview. Prompt preview modal

Important: Change to data source integration

Important change for existing usersWe have fundamentally reworked the way knowledge sources are integrated into voice agents.

Old (being discontinued):

Use the Knowledge Base tab in the Voice Wizard with toggle-based activation.

Timeline

Migration in 3 simple steps

1

Review your data sources

Go to Knowledge Base in the left navigation and review your existing data sources. If you previously used %%context:faq%%, you should find a data source named “faq”.
2

Clean up your prompt

Remove all %%context:...%% placeholders from your prompt.Before:
After:
3

Activate data sources in the Wizard

Go to Voice Wizard -> Knowledge Base tab and activate the desired data sources with the toggle switch (on/off).
Important: Avoid duplicates!Use either the old %%context:...%% method or the new toggle method — not both at the same time! If you combine both methods, the data sources are inserted into the prompt twice, which leads to worse results.

Benefits of the new method

Frequently asked questions

The upload is rejected if one of the following conditions is exceeded:
  • File size: More than 15 MB
  • Extracted text content: Too much text for a single data source (roughly more than 20-30 pages of text)
This safeguards the performance and response quality of your voice agents. Data sources that are too large would already exceed the recommended token limits on their own.Solution: Check whether all the information in the document is really relevant for your voice agent. If necessary, create several specialized data sources containing only the most important information for different use cases.
Yes, you can upload PDFs with images. The system automatically extracts the existing text from the PDF.Important to note:
  • Only real text is extracted from the PDF (e.g. text created with a text editor)
  • Text that is only embedded as an image in the PDF (e.g. scanned pages without OCR) cannot be read
  • Images themselves are not processed — only the text is used
Solution if you run into problems: If your PDF consists mainly of scanned images, use an OCR tool (text recognition) to convert the PDF into a searchable PDF with extractable text.
The agent receives a large amount of context at once, and response quality can degrade. The AI may struggle to find the most relevant information and answer precisely.Pay attention to the token warnings and consider whether all activated data sources are really necessary for the agent’s current task.
All uploaded data sources are stored centrally for your entire tenant (account) and are visible to all users in your account.The files and data are stored on servers in the EU and are subject to European data protection regulations (GDPR).
All existing data sources are still available in the Knowledge Base. They just need to be activated in the Voice Wizard via the toggle switch instead of being referenced in the prompt.
Yes, there are two ways:
  • In the Voice Wizard -> Knowledge Base tab: All activated data sources have their toggle switch set to “ON”
  • Prompt preview: Shows the complete context with all activated data sources, exactly as it is sent to the AI
Note: The preview only shows data sources activated via the new toggle method.
Use the prompt preview to understand what your final prompt looks like with all data sources. This helps you spot redundancies and optimize quality!