News and updates from whoot.
Product launches, emergency-response features and notes from the team. Every post describes something that has shipped.
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- September 2026Emergency Response6 min readSpeak a report instead of typing oneReporting a problem now takes a voice message and photos, not just a text box. Speak into the page and the recording is transcribed, summarised for the operator triaging it, and dropped into the voice room your team is already listening to. The same controls appear on the incident response page mid-alert.
- September 2026Emergency Response6 min readThe people who see a problem first don't work for youA public reporting page behind the same QR code your sign-up links already use. Anyone can report a chained fire exit, a broken barrier, or behaviour that worries them. You write the questions, and every report lands in a triage queue where your team sets priority and owner.
- August 2026Emergency Response5 min readSee live location on an actual mapDuring an incident, people who consent can share their position, and the incident map comes to life with live pings, movement trails, and a what3words square for every location. App users can share continuously in the background, with a pause control that is always one tap away.
- August 2026Messaging4 min readScan to sign up, even after the alert has gone outPublic QR sign-up pages can now carry your brand: your logo, your colours, and your own consent wording. Joining mid-incident works too. Anyone who signs up to a targeted list during a live alert is enrolled, sent the alert, and added to the roster automatically.
- July 2026Emergency Response5 min readOne tap says "I'm safe"Every emergency alert now carries a personal response link. It opens in any browser with no app and no account, records a one-tap status reply, shares live location with consent, and displays operator updates the moment they are posted. Your dashboard tracks every reply in real time.
- July 2026Messaging5 min readWrite a message now and send it on Tuesday at 9SMS campaigns now support scheduling and two-way replies. Compose a message to your recipient lists, schedule the send, and ask a question with keyword choices. Answers are tallied per person in your dashboard, and every campaign can be paused, resumed, or cancelled mid-send.
- July 2026Product Launch5 min readwhoot. is now on AndroidThe whoot. Android app is live on Google Play. The app is built natively in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with push-to-talk straight from the lock screen, a tablet turret layout for the control room, and the same <150ms voice your team already runs on.
- June 2026Product Launch5 min readSend a text and get the reply in your voice roomTwo-way SMS is built into every voice room. Text anyone from your voice room's own number and their reply lands straight in the timeline, with no app to install and no account to create. The release also adds branded broadcast, emergency alerts with reply tracking, and a comms log built for Martyn's Law incident review.
- June 2026Intelligence5 min readJog My Memory finds anything that's been saidAsk in plain English and instantly surface any moment from your voice rooms: every call, report, and decision. Jog My Memory runs semantic search across your own conversations, with inline citations that replay the exact audio.
- June 2026Design4 min readMessages and transcripts now share one timelineOne real-time timeline now holds every word your team speaks and types, with speaker grouping, inline audio replay, live partial transcripts, and search across everything. Choose Expanded or Compact density.
- June 2026Product4 min readChannels are now RoomsWe've renamed channels to rooms across web, iOS, and Android. They are the same persistent, always-on voice spaces with a clearer name for how teams actually use them, and there is nothing to migrate or relearn.
- May 2026Product Launch5 min readProvision users at scale and manage your workspace from codewhoot. now offers SCIM 2.0 provisioning and a Management API for programmatic control of users and voice rooms. Connect your identity provider, automate onboarding, and manage your workspace from your own tools.
- April 2026Product Launch5 min readDial in to any voice room from any phoneGive every whoot. voice room a real phone number. PSTN callers dial in and join instantly, with no app, no account, and no friction. Each number comes with flexible auth modes, real-time presence, and full usage visibility.
- April 2026Product Launch5 min readwhoot. is now on iOSThe whoot. iOS app is live on the App Store, putting push-to-talk in your pocket with ultra-real-time voice, full voice room access, and instant notifications on the go.
- April 2026Integration4 min readFlexenet meets whoot.whoot. now connects directly to Flexenet's SIP gateway for enterprise UK PSTN connectivity, with lower latency, higher reliability, and simpler provisioning for dial-in and dial-out.
- March 2026Product Launch5 min readIntroducing the Intelligence SecOps DashboardThe dashboard brings real-time security operations intelligence to your voice infrastructure. Monitor threats, flag anomalies, and surface compliance risks, all from one unified dashboard.
- February 2026Intelligence5 min readKeyword Watchdog & Topic IntelligenceAI-powered real-time monitoring now listens for keywords, phrases, and topics across every voice room, flagging compliance risks, escalation triggers, and operational signals as they happen.
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