Duke
Ultra lineDeep and unhurried. The classic voice of god: the room goes quiet when he starts.
GalasIntroductionsAwards
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Voice of godIntroductions · Winners · Housekeeping
Ladies and gentlemen...Event announcer voice
Type the announcement, pick one of five announcer voices, and get a clean MP3 for every moment of the night: the host's entrance, the winner, the five minute call. Recorded in the afternoon, fired on cue in the evening.
5Announcer voices
300Characters a line
1File per announcement
The booth · hear it liveVoice Duke · Ultra
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage your host for this evening, Abd Shanti!
Three live listens a day, free, no account. The real files, with any of the five voices and your whole run of show, are made in the Studio with PRO.
The announcer, at a glance
FreeTTS makes event announcer tracks: in the Studio's Script mode, write ANNOUNCER: before a line and one of five announcer voices (Duke, Arthur, George, Oliver or Wyatt) reads it whole, in one take, up to 300 characters a line, with one MP3 or WAV per track; recording comes with PRO, and guests can hear their own introduction in Duke on this page, three times a day where the audition is offered.
- Voices
- 5
- Per line
- 300 chars
- Takes
- 1, kept
- Files
- 1 per track
- Formats
- MP3, WAV
- Plan
- PRO
Checked 31 October 2026
The five voices
Chosen by ear, for the room
Nine candidates read the same introduction. These five made the cut. Each card plays four real announcements, the way they come out of the Studio, with nothing added.
Duke and Arthur are the first picks for a gala. George, Oliver and Wyatt come from the Prime line and share one allowance between them.
First pick
Arthur
Ultra lineWarm and wise, with the weight of a storyteller. The honoree who gets a tribute, not a title card.
TributesHonoreesOpening remarks
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George
Prime lineAssured and even. Reads a sponsor list like a newsroom and a winner like he knew all along.
ConferencesAwards nightsCorporate dinners
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Oliver
Prime lineResonant, with carry. Built for a gym, an arena or a hall where the back row matters.
Sports nightsGraduationsBig rooms
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Wyatt
Prime linePolished and calm. A dinner jacket of a voice for formal rooms and quiet announcements.
Formal dinnersWeddingsFundraisers
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How it works
Three lines of markup, one night of files
Script mode is the Studio's recording room for people who perform: your own lines read into an earpiece, cues in a second voice, exact pauses, and now a third voice for the room. One script holds the whole evening.
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Write the run of show
In the Studio's Script mode, type ANNOUNCER: before any line the announcer should read, TRACK: and a name wherever a new audio file should start, and CUE: for notes that are read to you in the cue voice. Your own lines need no mark at all.
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Pick the announcer voice and record
Choose Duke, Arthur, George, Oliver or Wyatt under Announcer, press Make recording, and every announcer line is read whole, in one take, up to 300 characters a line.
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Download one file per track
Each track lands as its own MP3, or WAV if the sound desk asks for it, named after the track. Drop them into QLab, a phone, a laptop or the DJ's deck and fire them on cue.
Run of show · Spring GalaScript mode
TRACK: Walk on ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host for this evening, Abd Shanti! CUE: Walk on. Wait for applause. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Riverside Spring Gala! TRACK: Paddle raise ANNOUNCER: The live auction begins in one minute. Please have your paddles ready. CUE: Show the paddle slide. In a moment, (pause 1) I'll ask you to raise your paddle. Your lines are read to you. ANNOUNCER: lines are heard by the room. Each TRACK: is one file.
Script library
Thirty one lines you can copy tonight
Written the way announcers say them, with the name last and a breath before it. Copy a line, swap in your names, paste it after ANNOUNCER: in the Studio.
The booth at the top can read any of these in Duke: choose Your own, paste the line, press Hear it.
Introductions6 lines
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage your host for this evening, Abd Shanti!
Please welcome the Executive Director of Outline Technologies, Abd Shanti.
And now, the moment you have been waiting for. Please welcome tonight's keynote speaker, Abd Shanti!
Would you please rise and welcome our Chair of the Board, Abd Shanti.
Put your hands together for your emcee and auctioneer, Abd Shanti!
Please welcome back to the stage, Abd Shanti.
Award winners5 lines
The award for Community Partner of the Year goes to... Outline Technologies!
And the winner is... Abd Shanti!
Our next honoree has served this organization for twenty years. Please welcome Abd Shanti.
Presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award, please welcome Abd Shanti.
This year's finalists are: Outline Technologies, the Riverside Food Bank, and the Harbor Youth Choir.
Welcome and housekeeping5 lines
Good evening, and welcome. Tonight's program begins in five minutes. Please find your seats, and silence your phones.
Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in two minutes. Please take your seats.
Welcome to the twenty twenty six Spring Gala. Dinner is served. The program resumes at eight o'clock.
Please note the emergency exits at the back of the hall and on both sides of the stage.
That concludes the first half. We will be back in fifteen minutes.
Sponsors and thanks4 lines
Tonight's dinner is made possible by our presenting sponsor, Outline Technologies. Please join me in thanking them.
We thank our gold sponsors: Outline Technologies and the Riverside Credit Union.
A special thank you to the volunteers who made tonight possible. Please give them a round of applause.
Thank you for coming. Drive safely, and good night.
Auction and paddle raise4 lines
The live auction begins in one minute. Please have your paddles ready.
Paddles up! Every paddle raised tonight feeds a family for a month.
Lot number seven is now open. Bidding starts at five hundred dollars.
The silent auction closes in ten minutes. Place your final bids now.
Weddings3 lines
Ladies and gentlemen, for the very first time, please welcome the newlyweds!
Please welcome the wedding party to the dance floor.
Would everyone please make their way to the terrace for the cake cutting.
Sports and schools4 lines
Now entering the court, your Riverside Hawks!
Starting at point guard, number eleven, Abd Shanti!
Good morning, students and families. Please rise for the national anthem.
Graduates, please stand. Families, hold your applause until every name has been read.
From the booth
Ten things the sound desk wishes you knew
Collected from emcees and charity auctioneers who run their whole night from recorded tracks. None of it is about software. All of it decides whether the room hears the name.
Put the name last, and give it a breath
“Please welcome to the stage... Abd Shanti!” Three dots before the name make the voice hold for a beat, and the name lands on its own. It is the oldest trick in the booth and it still works.
Spell for the ear
Write “Doctor” rather than “Dr.”, “twenty twenty six” rather than the digits, and letters that are said one by one with spaces between them. What you would say out loud is what the voice says.
One announcement, one track
Give every announcement its own TRACK: line, so it arrives as its own file. At the event you fire one file per moment and never hunt for a timestamp.
Two sentences is the sweet spot
The limit is 300 characters, about twenty seconds. A welcome, a title, a name. Anything longer belongs to the emcee, not the voice of god.
Check the name before the night
Add a hard name under Say it right in the Studio, press the play button next to it and listen. Write it as real words with spaces, “shaw nee”, not made up chunks. Two tries usually land it.
Record once, then leave it alone
Announcer voices are recorded whole, so a line you record again can sound a little different. When a line is right, stop touching it. Fix other lines freely: they are separate takes.
Set the level in the room
These voices are strong. Play one file through the house system at rehearsal, set the fader there, and leave it. A phone speaker tells you nothing about a ballroom.
Fade the music, not the voice
Bring the entrance music down under the announcement and back up on the name. The voice stays at one level, so the sound desk only ever rides one fader.
Confirm titles and name order
Ask the person how they want to be introduced. Doctor or not, maiden name or married, which name goes first. A correct introduction is remembered longer than a flashy one.
Carry a backup
Keep the files on a phone as well as the laptop, and export WAV if the AV desk prefers it. The file that plays is the one you can reach when the laptop decides to update itself.
Where it is used
Every room with a stage and a schedule
Charity galas and fundraisers
Host introductions, paddle raise calls, sponsor thanks, all recorded before the night, so the auctioneer keeps the room.
Awards nights
Finalists, winners, presenters. Every envelope moment in one voice, with the name held for a beat.
Conferences and summits
Session openers, keynote introductions, housekeeping between talks. The same voice all day, in every room.
Weddings and private parties
The grand entrance, the first dance, the cake. Said once, said right, and nobody has to hand the microphone to an uncle.
Schools and graduations
Assemblies, prize days, the call to stand for the anthem. A clear voice that carries in a gym.
Sports nights
Starting lineups and team entrances with a voice that fills the arena, from the booth or a phone courtside.
Trade shows and launches
Stage demos, draw winners and product reveals, announced on cue from the booth laptop.
Community theatre and worship
Pre show notices, intermissions and the welcome, recorded in the quiet of an afternoon instead of read live.
Before the event
What to know, plainly
One take per line
Announcer voices do not repeat a take exactly. Each line is recorded whole and kept; when you change its words it is recorded whole again and may carry a slightly different delivery. Every other line in the script keeps its audio.
300 characters a line
Longer lines are refused before anything is recorded, and the Studio shows the count next to each one. Split a long announcement into two lines, or give the long part to your own lines voice.
English voices
Duke, Arthur, George, Oliver and Wyatt read English. Script mode's own voices are English too. For announcements in another language, record them in the Studio's single voice mode with one of the 149 languages there.
Part of PRO, with an allowance
Recording in Script mode comes with PRO. Prime voices include 50,000 characters a month on PRO; Ultra voices carry their own monthly allowance. A typical introduction is about a hundred characters, so a season of events fits inside either.
Your file, your event
PRO and Creator include a commercial licence, so a ticketed gala, a corporate summit or a paid wedding gig is covered. The files are yours to keep.
Nothing else is added
No music, no applause, no reverb. The file is the voice, trimmed tight at both ends, so your playback software can lay it over whatever the room is playing.
Questions
Asked by people with a show tonight
House lights down
Write the line. Pick the voice. Walk on.
Open the Studio with three announcer tracks already written, change the names, press Make recording, and download the files for tonight.