Make audio announcements
Last modified: Thursday October 02, 2025.
If you have speakers connected to your Alta solution, you can make audio announcements from Video view, Devices, Map view, and pop-up notifications. You can make live announcements through a microphone, play prerecorded audio clips, or a combination of both.
Before you start
- Add speakers to your Alta apps and associate them with cameras. See Add speakers to the Alta Platform
- Configure the audio settings of your Alta apps and add a microphone to make live announcements. See Audio options in Alta Video.
- To make announcements from Map view, add your speakers or associated cameras to a map. See Configuring Map view.
- To make announcements directly from alarm notifications, create rules using cameras associated with speakers and set pop-up notifications as a triggered alarm action. See Alta Video rule types.
Make announcements from a speaker
- Select the required speaker or associated camera:
- In Video view, you can drag a speaker directly into a view pane or open a view containing an associated camera.
- In the Devices tool, open the
Speakers tab and select the required speaker. - In map view, click on the required speaker or associated camera.
- From a pop-up alert, you can access the speaker from the video pane.
- To make a microphone announcement:
- Click and hold the
Push-to-talk (PTT) button and speak into the connected microphone.
- From cameras, click the
Audio announcements icon to display the push-to-talk icon.
- If you do not see a response to your voice levels, check that the microphone is correctly connected and configured.
- If you do not see the
icon showing green in response to your voice levels, check the microphone is correctly connected and configured.
- Check the status of the speaker in the side panel. It cannot be selected if it is already in use or is in an error state. See, Speaker states.
- From cameras, click the
- When you have finished speaking, release the PTT button.
- Click and hold the
- To play an audio clip, open the dropdown
and click
for the required sound. See Audio library for announcements and alarms.
Make bulk announcements from a speaker
- From the toolbar, open
> Devices . - Hover over
Devices and selectSpeakers . - Select the required speakers.
- Click
Bulk announcement . - Click and hold
Start live announcement and speak into the microphone.
Speaker states
The status of a speaker is shown in the side panel and can be
When making bulk announcements, shows a selected speaker is unavailable. Click the icon for more information.
If a speaker is already in use, subsequent users or actions cannot use that speaker.