EVAX/Edwards ANS Voice Files

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DISCLAIMER (February 8th, 2026):
To anyone who reads this thread, this may be a partially outdated thread, regarding the status of obtaining EVAX voice message files from Potter Signal through email, along with older voice messages and scripts used on legacy panels, such as the GE Fire & Security Audio Notification System which is now known as the Edwards/Kidde ANS, and uses modern EVAX assets from Potter.

2006-2013 GE ANS audio messages:

  • Alarm Message: “Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please stop operations and leave the building immediately. Use the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use the elevators, repeat, do not use the elevators.”

  • All Clear Message: “May I have your attention please. The emergency has been resolved. You may now re-enter the building, and resume normal activities. Thank you.”

Since August 2025, only authorized individuals or entities who are wholesale distributors that do business with Potter and their products, may request voice files by charging a fee for the MP3 file to be ordered, which would then be determined by the Orders Department, or the Distributor.

I was also still learning about EVAX’s legacy and early 2000s history before Potter bought them. Including their former open source partners who moved on long ago, such as the Gamewell GV Series, Harrington Signal HAVE Series, Faraday VPS Series, GE Fire & Security ANS, among others.

I apologize for any outdated or conflicting information that may still exist in this thread, and I am to make necessary changes at any time to its content.

Sorry if this was too long, I had to include it to correct any issues or facts I hadn’t known sooner in early 2025.

To those who may have questions about this:

Question:
“I’ve heard Edwards Signaling/Kidde can still provide these files for free. Should I contact them?”

Answer:
As of January 30, 2026, Edwards may have possibly moved to a “Distributor/Dealer Only” model. Such requests from unauthorized individuals or entities are currently being denied.

Question:
“Why can’t I just DM you for the files if you have them?”

Answer:
This project is an independent archival effort focused on documentation. Due to the updated copyright policies since August 2025, mass distribution of these proprietary assets is now restricted. My goal is to preserve the history of the GE/Edwards ANS and EVAX’s history, not to act as a free alternative to official distribution channels.

Thank you for reading my post. Please DO NOT ask or DM me for EVAX or ANS files.

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The first one is the emergency evacuation message heard on Edwards/EST-rebranded Evax panels, right? (it’s said by a male voice actor) As for the second one, I know of similar, but not identical, ones that can be found in one of Potter’s software programs (one male, one female: both have the exact same script).

What a dumb idea on their part & what a waste (provided he means that they deleted the original master recordings).

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That is correct, it’s usually heard on the ANS25/50/100, it’s kinda lost media right now, but hopefully someone extracts the EEPROMs someday.

And yes, I think that it was a really dumb decision for Potter to delete the original messages.

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Ah okay, thought so. Yeah (especially with recent efforts by some to do so with several different brands’ EEPROMs).

Yeah (though it arguably kinda depends on whether they simply deleted them from newer renditions of whatever voice panel(s) of theirs uses them or whether they deleted the master recordings instead).

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I’ve contacted Hochiki for the messages since they also have a rebranded EVAX, but I don’t know if they have that old message.

The worker also sent me some messages and tones, but I choose not to give them out as of the time being.

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Oh, really? Good idea then.

Seriously? Jeez companies go way overboard with copyright nowdays…(it’s literally just audio files of a person talking people, not the nuclear codes for Pete’s sake!)

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Can I at least hear the whoop tone? That’s my favorite one cause my former high school has it.

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No, sorry.

I’m not sure if EVAX would want their copyrighted files to be distributed publicly, even though they are not my property.

You can email Edwards for the audio files from the ANS system, it has the whoop tone, even and a small set of voice messages!

(REDACTED ON FEBRUARY 8, 2026)

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Are those different from the more standard Edwards/EST tones & messages? (including the 7 default male messages most systems use?)

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Okay. I hope I could be the one to extract the voice messages and tones from an EVAX panel so I could release it then I guess idk.

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Yes.

Modern ANS units use the default female EVAX message (alarmmessage.mp3), and EVAX tones (T1.mp3 to T15.mp3). There are no EST specific assets in there.

Older units (typically have a GE logo) use that older male message, which sounds similar to the EST Message 1 (aka: “cease operations”).

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The support person from Edwards said to me that if I have the ANS system and those messages are in there, they could be extracted from the ANS.

This is a Micro USB-based method where you flip a DIP switch called SN-1, and you can view the files using Windows Explorer, but keep in mind that this does not apply to all EVAX amplifiers though, especially older EEPROM units, like those manufactured before Potter bought EVAX in 2015, and before USB was invented.

I will try to show those pictures later.

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Oh, okay. Did you somehow get the latter through emailing Edwards? (since something tells me they wouldn’t be willing to just give out what’s technically their intellectual property to someone they don’t know) Also: do both generations have EVAX’s tones regardless of whatever message they have?

Thesdx, who owned a GE-branded ANS100, described that one as a “male EST2 or 3 message” once (even though I don’t believe I’ve ever heard such a message on any system with an EST2 or EST3).

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It actually said, “please stop operations” iirc

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I am comparing the scripts, yes, I know it says “stop operations”:

GE ANS:

  • “Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please stop operations and leave the building immediately. Use the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use the elevators, repeat, do not use the elevators.”

EST Guy:

  • “Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please cease operations and leave the building, utilizing the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use elevators, repeat, do not use elevators.”

My theory is that GE Security wanted to use a different script, and EVAX custom recorded it for them.

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It makes sense because the “weather emergency” script had the same voice as the EST one, and the"weather emergency" message was played over a regular non-EST branded EVAX.

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No, the weather emergency is the EVAX male. EST has no weather, or non-fire messages that I know of.

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Both generations used EVAX Tones, but modern EVAX panels no longer offer Hi-Lo, and 1000Hz.

You can try to contact them yourself and they should send you the files, it took a week for me to receive them though.

EVAX Guy’s voice recording (the one on the GE ANS) is similarly worded to the one from EST Guy, but it’s not the exact voice recording used in the regular EST3 panels.

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Ah okay (wonder why they removed those two tones though: it’s good to have options isn’t it?).

Oh? Huh, alright (surprised they’d be so lenient but then again they are Edwards, probably one of the best & nicest companies still left in the biz).

I know: it’s odd that thesdx said that when they’ve supposedly never been used on the EST2 or EST3 (unless he was referring to the similar script that it has to one of those 7 Edwards/EST male messages).

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There’s even an “AHOOGA!” tone, two sped up police sirens (cartoon sound effect), and even an air-raid siren!

I don’t understand why those tones would even exist for a fire alarm system, especially the “AHOOGA!” one, and those police sirens.

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