Voice announcements

The device has a built-in voice announcement system. Some announcements are played locally from the built-in flash memory, but some are played using our open source voice announcement server.

If the battery charge percentage is 15% or below, and the Enable battery low announcement is turned on, then the device plays battery charge status voice announcements every 5 minutes.

If the Time announcement interval is set, then the device will periodically announce current time. Interval is calculated from midnight, so for example if it is set to every 3 hours, then it will announce current time at 3AM, 6AM, 9AM and so on. Before announcing the time, the device checks if a call came from the network in the last 10 seconds. If yes, the time announcement will be skipped so it won’t interfere with ongoing calls.

If you enable Advanced mode, the following settings will show up:

• You can shorten profile announcements by checking the Shortened profile announcement checkbox.

• If you don’t want to hear the linked reflector/talkgroups list, then you can shorten BrandMeister announcements by checking the Shortened BrandMeister announcement checkbox.

• You can disable built-in voice announcements by checking the Use server only checkbox. Note that startup voice announcements played right after the device boots will still be played from the device’s flash memory.

• You can set your own voice announcement server’s host and port.

• Net state announcement int. sets the interval of the announcement if the device can’t connect to a Wi-Fi® network.