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title: "Ad hoc announcements - Text to speech with visual"
slug: "ad-hoc-announcements-text-to-speech-with-visual-tra"
updated: 2025-09-29T10:56:30Z
published: 2025-09-29T10:56:30Z
canonical: "docs.simpleway.cloud/ad-hoc-announcements-text-to-speech-with-visual-tra"
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# Ad hoc announcements - Text to speech with visual

The *Text to Speech* *with visual* 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 audio zones and its visual part to the display areas for playback. This means that you must select zones that include both audio device outputs and display configurations before playing the announcement. Templates with a visual paging component must be assigned to these displays, as described in the [Visual paging](/v1/docs/visual-paging) tutorial.

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 with visual* 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(4).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. Set how long the visual paging content should be shown on displays. By clicking **Match** **audio**, the visual paging length will automatically match your audio duration. By selecting **Custom**, you can manually set the timing regardless of audio length. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide5(5).jpg) |
| C) **Push the announcement for playing:** 1. *Select zones* by ticking the respective checkboxes where you want your announcement to be transmitted. 2. (optional) – Select the *Priority* with which your recording will be queued up for playback among other announcements. 3. (optional) – Select the *Repetition type* and configure the repetition settings. Described in more detail below. 4. Click the *Play* button. The announcement starts to be heard in the selected zones unless the selected are occupied by another announcement that has higher or equal priority and is also shown on displays. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide6(3).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). |