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title: "Ad hoc announcements - Text to speech"
slug: "ad-hoc-announcements-text-to-speech-tra"
updated: 2025-09-29T10:56:19Z
published: 2025-09-29T10:56:19Z
canonical: "docs.simpleway.cloud/ad-hoc-announcements-text-to-speech-tra"
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# Ad hoc announcements - Text to speech

The *Text to Speech* page on the *Ad hoc announcements* tab allows users to use the Text to Speech (TTS) feature of the Simpleway solution, which converts typed text into an audio announcement that can then be sent to the desired zones for playback.

Topics covered

- Ad hoc announcements tab

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**TUTORIAL STEPS:**

| A) **To create the announcemet:** 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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide4(2).jpg) |
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| B) ******Listen to your announcement:****** 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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide5(3).jpg) |
| C) **Push the announcement for playing:** 1. (optional) – Select the *Priority* with which your recording will be queued up for playback among other announcements. 2. (optional) – Select the *Repetition type* and configure the repetition settings. Described in more detail below. 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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide6(2).jpg) |
| 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. |
| E) Detailed information about the triggered announcement can be found on the Queue tab - see tutorial [**Announcement history**](/v1/docs/announcement-history). |