Text announcements
Type it, Quak says it. Over 1,000 voices from ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google and Amazon Polly, in more than 70 languages.
"Dinner is ready!"
announcements for sonos
Make your Sonos speak up.
Text-to-speech, push-to-talk, sounds and your own clips on every speaker in the house, from anywhere in the world. Right now, on a schedule, or from Slack, the terminal and your AI assistant.
No card, no subscription. Credits from packs never expire.
Home · calling the kids for dinner: quak text "Dinner is ready!" --to kids-room,office
compatible with
- Sonos
- Stream Deck
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Home Assistant
- Raycast
- Apple Shortcuts
- IFTTT
- Slack
- GitHub Actions
features
Say it, play it, schedule it.
Every announcement goes to the speakers you pick, a group, a room or the whole house.
Push-to-talk
Hold, speak, let go. Your voice plays on the speakers you picked, from the phone, the browser or the terminal.
hold to talk
Live talk
Your voice on the speakers while you speak, like an intercom for the whole house. From the Family plan on.
talking live…
Sounds and clips
Over 250 sounds from gong to school bell to party horn, plus your own clips, URLs and files. Your jingle, your rules.
clapping-crowd
Scheduled announcements
Stand-up every weekday at 9:55, the bin reminder on Tuesday night. Set it once, Quak remembers.
mon–fri 09:55
Trigger URLs
One link, one announcement. Put it in Apple Shortcuts, a home automation or any tool that can open a link.
GET /t/qk_trg_…
1,000+
voices
70+
languages
32
effects
250+
sounds
Voices from ElevenLabs, Google, OpenAI and Amazon Polly.
Effects, because why not
16 voice effects like robot, helium or megaphone, and 16 ambience effects that put a place behind the voice, from a stadium to a spaceship. Serious announcements, not so serious delivery.
- vibrato
- megaphone
- bitcrush
- radio dj
- robot
- helium
- monster
- lo-fi
- echo
- telephone
- chorus
- underwater
- announcement
- faster
- slower
- reverse
- stadium
- train station
- airport
- formula 1
- tennis
- swimming pool
- café
- rain
- beach
- forest
- open-plan office
- church
- christmas market
- airplane cabin
- supermarket
- spaceship
wherever you are
One Quak, many ways in.
From the sofa, the office or the other side of the world: use the web app, the apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad, or plug Quak into the tools you already use.
- Web appEverything in the browser, no install.
- Mac, iPhone, iPadNative apps, push-to-talk from your pocket.
- Slack appAnnounce from a channel, “Meeting in 5 minutes”.
- CLIquak text, quak sound. For the terminal, scripts and AI agents.
- APIA clean REST API with an OpenAPI schema.
- MCP serverLet Claude, ChatGPT etc. make the announcement.
- IntegrationsRaycast, Home Assistant, IFTTT, GitHub Actions and more.
POST /v1/play/text
curl https://api.quak.party/v1/play/text \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $QUAK_API_KEY" \
--json '{"text": "Deploy is green. Nice work!", "to": ["office"]}'playing on Office
That's it, one request. Voices, sounds, speakers and effects are in the docs.
made for
From the kitchen to the chain store.
At home
“Dinner is ready!”
One tap and every room knows. The doorbell on all speakers, a wake-up call for the kids, a gong for movie night.
More →In the office
“Meeting in 5 minutes.”
From Slack or on a schedule. Meeting reminders, the deal gong, or talk live to the whole floor.
More →In shops and practices
“Checkout three is open.”
Control many locations from one place. Closing time in all stores, the next patient to room two.
More →In your code and your agents
“The build is green.”
A REST API, a CLI and an MCP server. Your CI, your scripts or your AI assistant make the announcement.
More →good to know
Loud when it should be, quiet when it shouldn't.
Quiet hours
22:00 to 7:00 by default, per weekday. Announcements in quiet hours are skipped and cost nothing.
Privacy first
Servers in Germany. Texts and audio stay 24 hours at most, just long enough to replay them.
Sonos cloud API
Works from anywhere, nothing to install at home. Music gets quieter for the announcement, then plays on.
Fair credits
One announcement to all speakers costs the same as to one. If it reaches none, it costs nothing.
For companies: Roles and several locations, a DPA from Family, 99.9% availability on Team and Business, prices plus VAT.
Plans for companies →open roadmap
You decide what Quak learns next.
Our roadmap is out in the open. Vote for the features and integrations you want, or suggest your own. The most wanted get built first, and every vote counts.
- ▲calendar reminders
- ▲your own voice
- ▲Ring doorbell
- ▲weather warnings
- ▲Zapier
faq
Good questions.
What do I need?
Sonos speakers and a Sonos account. Quak connects to Sonos in the cloud, so it works from anywhere, not only at home.
Which speakers work?
Almost all Sonos speakers. After connecting, Quak shows how many of your speakers can play announcements. Only very old devices can't.
What happens to my music?
It gets quieter during the announcement and keeps playing afterwards. On some older models it pauses briefly.
Do my credits expire?
Credits from packs never expire. Credits from a plan are valid for their month, with a yearly plan they also arrive fresh every month. Plan credits are used first, then your pack balance.
What is a credit?
Credits pay for announcements, charged once when one plays, however many speakers it reaches. What each kind costs, from a sound to the most natural voices, is on the pricing page.
Where is my data?
On servers in Germany, audio files stay in the EU. For voices we use specialised providers that only receive the text of the announcement. All of them are listed in the privacy policy.
pricing
Free to start. Pay for what you use.
500 credits to start, then a plan from €5 a month with more features, or packs that never expire. Questions? See the FAQ.
Ready to quack?
Connect your Sonos in a minute. Your first announcements are on us.