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title: "Record and Play a Live Microphone Announcement – Airport CX"
slug: "ad-hoc-announcements-call-forward-air"
description: "Record an announcement at your microphone and push it straight to selected zones with a set priority."
updated: 2025-09-29T10:55:57Z
published: 2025-09-29T10:55:57Z
canonical: "docs.simpleway.cloud/ad-hoc-announcements-call-forward-air"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Ad hoc announcements - Call forward

The *Call forward* page on the Ad hoc announcements tab allows you to **record announcements with an attached microphone device** and push it immediately to the required zones for playback.

Topics covered

- Ad hoc announcements tab

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**TUTORIAL STEPS:**

| A) **To record the announcement:** 1. Open the *Ad hoc announcements* tab. The *Call forward* page opens by default. 2. Click the button with the *microphone* icon to start recording. The *microphone* icon changes to the *stop* icon. Click it again to stop recording. **Note**: By default, noise reduction is enabled (checkbox is selected), this function helps to remove ambient noise in the recording. To disable it, clear the checkbox. **Note**: The *Play* button in the lower right corner will be enabled after recording the announcement. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide5(1).jpg) |
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| B) **Listen to what you have recorded:** 1. After you stop recording, the *stop* button will be replaced by the two following buttons: **Preview recording -** allowing you to listen to the recorded announcement and **Discard recording -** to cancel it if you wish to make a new one. 2. *Select zones* by ticking the respective checkboxes where you want your recording to be transmitted. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide6(1).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 announcement starts to be heard in the selected zones unless the selected zone/s are occupied by another announcement that has higher or equal priority. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide7.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). |

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