waze beeps

A beeps-only sound pack. One short beep for every turn — loud, obvious alerts for the things that matter.

How to use these sounds

Every sound here is synthesised live in your browser with the Web Audio API — what you hear in preview is exactly what downloads. Files are standard 16-bit mono WAVs, so they work anywhere a custom sound is accepted.

Beeps-only turn instructions in Waze

Waze plays a single announcement by stitching together several prompt files (e.g. “in 800 meters take the third exit” = 800meters + Third + ExitRight). If every file beeps you’ll hear three beeps for one instruction. So the beep is assigned only to the action verbs — TurnLeft, TurnRight, KeepLeft, KeepRight, ExitLeft, ExitRight, Straight, uturn — while the distance, ordinal and connector prompts are silent. Waze still plays them (so it doesn’t fall back to its default voice for those pieces), you just don’t hear anything until the action word. Result: one beep per maneuver.

  1. Open Waze → Settings → Voice & sound → Waze voice.
  2. Choose Add a voice / the custom-voice recorder.
  3. For each action verb prompt above, upload instruction.wav; upload a tiny silent clip for the distance / ordinal / connector prompts.
  4. Use arrival.wav for “you have arrived”.

Installing a pack from a single Waze link

Waze can install a whole voice pack from one link of the form https://waze.com/ul?acvp=<UUID>. Tapping it on a phone with Waze installed opens the app and downloads that pack — perfect for sharing or for moving a pack you built onto your phone.

The catch: the pack has to live on Waze’s own servers (as <UUID>.tar.gz), and there’s no public web API to upload one — so this page can’t mint a link for you. You create the pack (and its link) through Waze itself:

  1. In-app recorder — Settings → Voice & sound → Waze voice → record a custom voice, then use Waze’s Share button to get the acvp link. Easiest, but it captures audio through the mic so quality suffers.
  2. File upload (best quality) — supply MP3s named to Waze’s exact prompt list, keeping the total under 0.8 MB, then upload via the community tooling (an Android emulator with file-system access). Waze then gives you the shareable acvp link.

Filename list and step-by-step upload guides: github.com/pipeeeeees/waze-voicepack-links. For a beeps-only pack, map instruction.wav (re-encoded to MP3) onto every navigation prompt and arrival.wav onto the arrival prompt.

Speed cameras, police & other alerts

Good news — a custom voice pack also covers Waze’s hazard prompts, so these alert sounds map straight onto Waze’s own warnings: speed camera (ApproachSpeedCam), red-light camera (ApproachRedLightCam), police (Police), crash (ApproachAccident), hazard (ApproachHazard) and heavy traffic (ApproachTraffic). They use richer, brighter tones than the gentle instruction beep on purpose, so each one is instantly recognisable over a podcast or song.

The same WAVs also work as your phone’s notification / alert tones, or in any navigation or automation app that lets you pick a custom alert sound.