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Voice announcements

Create voice announcements

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Turn a line of text into a professional AI voice announcement that plays automatically between your music tracks, with no recording equipment needed.

Where to find announcements

In the app

Tap the person icon at the top right, then Ads.

In the web player

Click Ads in the menu on the left. The Ads studio has a Create tab and a list of your announcements.

Create an announcement

1
Open Ads, then tap + (app) or the Create tab (web).
2
Give your announcement a campaign title for your own reference, then write your script. You have up to 500 characters.
3
Under Playback frequency, choose how many music tracks play between each announcement: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 or 15. 4 to 5 is a good starting point for most venues.
4
Choose a style. Voice only is one announcer reading your text, with no music: pick a voice from the cards, each with a sample you can play, then tap Generate preview. Fully produced is a short scene with music, ambience and effects, up to 45 seconds: add a line of direction if you like (who speaks, and the mood), tap Write the prompt, read the prompt the studio writes and change anything you want, then tap Generate preview. A fully produced announcement can take up to two minutes.
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Listen to the preview, then save the announcement. It starts playing between your music tracks straight away.

Styles, languages and monthly allowances

The style follows the language your app is set to: fully produced announcements are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Polish, while in Portuguese and Czech you pick a voice from the cards. Each month you can generate 20 previews and save 10 announcements with a voice, and generate 10 previews and save 5 fully produced ones. The counter under the button shows what is left and when it resets.

Keep announcements short and occasional. One every few tracks is plenty to promote a special or welcome guests without interrupting the atmosphere.

Where announcements play

Announcements play in every list you play, radio stations included, at the frequency you set. They appear in the track list at the position they will play, so you can see what is coming.

Running more than one announcement

You can have several announcements active at once. They take turns in the order you created them. You can edit an announcement’s title or frequency at any time, but changing the script, the style or the voice means deleting it and creating a new one. To pause an announcement without deleting it, set its frequency to Off.

Announcements for several locations

On Melodial Plus, announcements the admin account creates play at every location. Announcements a location creates play only at that location. See the Melodial Plus guide for how to give a location its own announcement without letting staff change it.

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