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I am building an agentic interviewer using Vapi. Some parts of the interview would require silence up to a few minutes. Upon testing on client side the call always times out after 30secs of silence. I can see that we have a server side config under the TransferAssistant (as shown below), but this config is only server side. I am wondering if Vapi would consider exposing this to the client or give us a way to configure this. Alternatively, I would be grateful if there is another workaround? 

    /**
     * This is the number of seconds of silence to wait before ending the call. Defaults to 30.
     *
     * @default 30
     * @min 10
     * @max 3600
     */
    silenceTimeoutSeconds?: number;

Many thanks

Sure I would love to <@1437844523798495387>  how do I initiate the test? Can you guide me step by step?

If easier feel free to do this via email instead as I sent support the same message over there, cheers

<@1362477557982695695> <@&1231325148079194222> is there any custom workaround?

Hi Cold Palmer,

To configure the **Customer Join Timeout** for your web calls, adjust the `customerJoinTimeoutSeconds` parameter via the Vapi API. You can set this for a new or an existing assistant using languages like TypeScript, Python, or via a cURL request. The default timeout is 15 seconds, but you can set it anywhere between 1 to 60 seconds.

Here's an example in **Python** for creating a new assistant with a 30-second timeout:

```python
from vapi import Vapi
client = Vapi(token=os.getenv("VAPI_API_KEY"))
assistant = client.assistants.create(
    name="Customer Support Assistant",
    model={"provider": "openai", "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"},
    voice={"provider": "11labs", "voiceId": "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM"},
    customer_join_timeout_seconds=30
)
```

You can also modify this setting for an existing assistant:

```python
updated_assistant = client.assistants.update(
    "assistant-id",
    customer_join_timeout_seconds=45
)
```

For more details, you can follow the documentation [here](https://docs.vapi.ai/calls/customer-join-timeout).