Ad hoc announcements - Text to speech

1. Open the Ad hoc announcements tab and switch to the Text to speech page.
2. Select languages for which you want to write the text to speech announcement. Announcement content box becomes available for each selected language.
3.  Type the text in the announcement content box.

1. By clicking the button with the "ear" icon you can preview the announcement for each selected language. During the preview, the button icon changes from "ear" to "stop". Pressing the button again stops the preview.
2. Select zones by ticking the respective checkboxes where you want your announcement to be transmitted.

1. (optional) – Select the Repetition type and configure the repetition settings. Described in more detail below.
   
2. (optional) – Select the Priority with which your recording will be queued up for playback among other announcements.
   
3. Click the Play button.

The text to speech announcement starts to be heard in the selected zones unless the selected are occupied by another announcement that has higher or equal priority.

D) Setting a repetition of the recording:

Users are able to set different basic repetition settings by selecting the desired mode in the Repetition type dropdown. 

• None – the announcement will be played one time once the user clicks on the Play button.
• Multiple times – the announcement will be played immediately once the user clicks on the Play button, and then it will repeat multiple times according to the set repetition. All scheduled announcement repetitions will be visible in the list on the Planned announcements tab as individual items. The maximum time limit for scheduling ahead of the current time is 180 minutes.