Custom Tone Board

Customize dispatch tones to broadcast to your units!

Sonoran Radio: Tone Board

Tones are limited based on your subscription plan.

Learn more about our paid plans.

Configuring the Tone Board

Under the Customization tab, select Tone Board.

Here, you can customize the name, icon, and color of existing tones or use the trash icon to remove a tone. Tones are sorted alphabetically.

Or, use the bottom section to upload and configure a new tone.

Uploading a Tone File

Select the upload icon to attach an audio file.

Sonoran Radio: Tone Upload

AI Text-To-Speech

The tone board also allows you to customize AI generated text-to-speech tones.

Additionally, you can generate temporary AI TTS tones directly inside of the tone board.

1. Enable Tone Board AI

Enable the Tone Board TTS option in the AI configuration panel.

2. Toggle AI Tone Mode

On the right of the new tone configurator, toggle the icon to change the new tone from audio uploader to AI.

Sonoran Radio: Tone AI

3. Customize And Generate via AI

Add the tone label, specify the text for the voice, and customize any other visual options.

The person icon will allow you to customize the voice type and speed.

The arrows icon will allow you to generate the voice.

The play icon will allow you to preview the AI voice.

Visual Customization

Select the music icon on the left to customize the icon, background color, and text color.

Sonoran Radio: Tone Visual Options

Using the Tone Board

Tone Board Hotkey

To quickly toggle the tone board, you may configure a custom hotkey in the settings menu.

Sonoran Radio - Tone Board Hotkey

Playing a Tone

After opening the tone board via hotkey or the music note icon, you will see the following UI.

• Search: Type-to-filter for available tone names

• Saved Stacks: Saved, pre-created tone stacks

• Broadcast To: Type-to-filter and multi-select the desired channels or channel groups

• Stack: Optionally toggle tone stacking to play multiple tones in order

• Repeat: Optionally toggle on a tone repeat with a total play number and a delay between plays

• Microphone: Record a temporary live audio tone from your microphone

• AI TTS: Generate a temporary AI-powered text-to-speech tone

Tone Broadcast To Options

Tones can be played to a channel, channel group, or an in-game speaker.

Sonoran Radio - Tone Board Broadcast Options

Repeating Tones

For repeated tones, you can hover over the active tone (or tone stack) to see what channels and groups it's playing to.

Additionally, the UI will reflect the remaining play count and show a progress bar for the delay until the next play.

Tone Board - Repeated Tones

Stacked Tones

Stacked tones allow you to align multiple tones together and play them in order.

Toggle on the Stack icon and click on tones in order. You can also drag-and-drop the stack at the bottom left to reorder tones prior to pressing Play.

Tone Board - Stacked Tones

Saved Stacks

Tone stacks can be saved for faster re-use.

After creating a stack press the Save icon. This will prompt you to enter in a stack name. Saved stacks will display on the Saved Stacks tab. Saved stacks can be "loaded" into the editor, played directly to your current Broadcast To channels, or deleted.

Shortcuts:

• Clicking a saved tone stack once will load the stack.

• Double-clicking a saved tone stack will play it.

Recording Tones

The microphone icon allows you to record local microphone audio to be played as a tone to radios or in-game speakers.

Click the microphone to start and stop recording. After the recording is completed, a small recording tone button will appear next to it. Click to add it to a stack or play as a single tone.

Tone Board - Microphone Recording

AI TTS

Similar to pre-configured AI speech tones, the AI wand icon allows you to enter in and generate a temporary text-to-speech AI tone to be played as a tone to radios or in-game speakers.

This feature requires the Tone Board TTS option to be enabled in the AI configuration panel.

Click the wand icon to enter text and customize the voice. Then, press enter to generate the audio. Click the newly generated audio to add it to a stack or play as a single tone.

Tone Board: AI Text-To-Speech