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title: "Play Generic Announcements from the Paging Tab – Airport CX"
slug: "play-generic-announcements-air"
description: "Select a prepared announcement on the Paging tab, choose languages and zones, then set priority and repetition."
updated: 2025-09-29T10:55:43Z
published: 2025-09-29T10:55:43Z
canonical: "docs.simpleway.cloud/play-generic-announcements-air"
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# Play GENERIC announcements

Generic announcements are located in the **Paging tab which is used for triggering announcements** inherent by the system, announcements pre-recorded by professional voice talent, uploaded audio files, announcements recorded by the client, and text-to-speech type announcements.

How to **trigger playing** of flight-related announcements:

1. select the announcement you want to play on the *Paging* tab,
2. configure the announcement - language, variables etc.,
3. select zones where your announcement shall be heard.

If you cannot find the announcement you want to play in the Paging tab, you can either use the *Ad hoc announcements* tab or create a new announcement in the *Paging library* for repetitive announcements, see tutorial [Create CUSTOM announcements](/v1/docs/create-your-custom-announcements-air). Announcements created on the *Paging library* can be played from the *Paging* tab.

Announcement text can also be displayed on displays if the selected zones include display configurations to which templates with a visual paging component are assigned, as described in the [Visual paging](/v1/docs/visual-paging-air) tutorial.

Topics covered

- Paging tab
- Queue tab

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**TUTORIAL STEPS:**

| A) **Paging tab - prepared generic announcement.** 1. Open the *Paging* tab. 2. Select the *announcement* that you want to trigger. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide1(251).JPG) |
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| B) **Announcement configuration.** Window with the announcement details opens: 1. *Select languages* section is for selecting the languages in which the scheduled announcement will be transmitted. 2. *Preview your announcement* before playing. With the **ear button,** the announcement can be pre-listened. 3. *Select zones* by ticking the respective checkboxes where you want your announcement to be transmitted. 4. (optional) – Select the *Priority* with which your recording will be queued up for playback among other announcements. 5. (optional) – Select the *Repetition type* and configure the repetition settings. 6. Click the **Play** button. | **![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide2(301).JPG)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. **Important**: The announcement will play immediately in the selected zones unless these zones are occupied by the playback of other announcements of the same priority/ importance. In this case, the playback of the announcement will be delayed until the selected zones are free again. |
| C) Detailed information about the triggered announcement can be found on the Queue tab - see tutorial [**Announcement history**](/v1/docs/announcement-history). |