features
Everything Quak can say.
Voices, sounds, your own clips and a few effects for fun. Everything below works today, in the web app and the API.
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Text-to-speech
Over 1,000 voices from ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google and Amazon Polly, in more than 70 languages. Many are multilingual, even within a sentence.
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Push-to-talk
Hold, speak, let go, and your voice plays on the speakers you picked. On the phone, in the browser, in the terminal.
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Over 250 sounds
From gong to school bell to party horn, searchable by tag, ready as intro, outro or on their own.
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Your own clips
Upload your jingle or keep any announcement as a clip, then play it again with one tap.
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Files and URLs
An audio file from your computer or a link to one on the web, played as it is or with effects.
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Intro, outro and gap
A gong before, a jingle after, a pause in between. Set it once as your default or per announcement.
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Quiet hours
22:00 to 7:00 by default, per weekday. Announcements in quiet hours are skipped and cost nothing.
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Speakers and groups
Every room as a slug, your own groups, and all speakers at once, across several Sonos accounts.
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Live status
See when an announcement is scheduled, playing, done or skipped, on every speaker, as it happens.
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Replay
Play an announcement again, in another room or exactly as it was, while its audio is still there.
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Members and roles
Invite your family or your team to one workspace, each with their own login, as admin or member.
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Live talk
Your voice on the speakers while you speak, like an intercom for the whole house. From the Family plan on.
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Voice and ambience effects
16 voice effects like robot or megaphone, 16 ambience effects like a stadium or a train station.
Being built
Already on the workbench, no vote needed.
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Scheduled announcements
Stand-up every weekday at 9:55, the bin reminder on Tuesday night. Set it once, Quak remembers.
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Trigger URLs
A secret link per announcement: open it from anything, a button, a shortcut or a smart home, no code needed.
Make a wish
Vote for what you'd like Quak to do next. The most wanted are on top, and we build them first.
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Calendar reminders
Connect a calendar (Google, Apple or any ICS link) and hear your meetings and appointments a few minutes before.
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Morning briefing
At a time you pick: the weather, your first meetings, the bin day and what else the day brings, in one announcement.
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Make your own sounds
Describe a sound and Quak makes it: a soft gong, a fanfare for a sale, a sleepy duck. Listen, then keep it as your own clip.
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Folders and tags for your clips
Sort your clips into folders or give them tags, then find the right one in a second, also in the API, CLI and your apps.
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Clip editor
Put sounds, clips and spoken text in a row, set the pauses, listen, and save the result as one clip. No detour through playing it first.
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Favorites
Star the sounds, clips and voices you use all the time. They come first everywhere: in the web app, the CLI and your apps.
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Weather and storm warnings
The forecast when you want it, and a heads-up on every speaker when a storm or heavy rain is on its way.
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Your own voice, your own key
Bring your own key for a voice provider and use the voices of your account there, even a clone of your own.
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Sequences
Several clips, sounds and texts in a row, as one announcement: jingle, message, jingle.
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Translated announcements
Type or say it in your language, and Quak announces it in another. Or in several, one after the other, so everyone understands.
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Members per location
Staff only for their own location: the shift lead in Mainz announces in Mainz, not in every store.
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Single sign-on
Log in with Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID (OpenID Connect). People with your company domain join the workspace automatically.
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Pause the music
Stop the music on all speakers, one room or a group with one call, e.g. when you leave the house.
Missing something?
Tell us what Quak should do, and it might land on this list.