{"kind":"guides","slug":"tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","path":"/guides/tesla-boombox-custom-sounds","title":"Tesla Boombox Custom Sounds and Lock Sound | SuperClonica","description":"Add custom Boombox and lock sounds to your Tesla: the USB folder and file rules from the owner’s manual, and spoken lines made in any voice for free.","h1":"Tesla Boombox custom sounds: make your car talk","intro":"Teslas with an external Pedestrian Warning System speaker can play sounds outside the car: Boombox sounds when you press the horn in Park, and a custom lock sound. Many owners want a voice line instead of a noise: a movie character, a robot, or a polite “Please step back from the vehicle”.\n\nThis guide sums up the owner’s manual instructions and shows how to make spoken sounds in any voice with SuperClonica.","sections":[{"heading":"What Boombox can play","paragraphs":["According to the Model Y owner’s manual, Boombox is available only on vehicles with the Pedestrian Warning System and plays sound through its external speaker while the car is in Park. Among other things, pressing the horn plays the first five seconds of a sound from a compatible USB drive. The manual also asks you to check local laws before using Boombox in public places."]},{"heading":"Prepare the USB drive","paragraphs":["The manual says you can add up to five custom sounds. Format the drive as exFAT, MS-DOS FAT on a Mac, ext3 or ext4; NTFS is not supported. Create one folder named Boombox, which must be the only folder on the drive, so it cannot be shared with Dashcam. Add .wav or .mp3 files; you can choose from the first five in alphabetical order, and file names may use only letters, digits, periods, dashes and underscores. Plug the drive into a front USB port, or the glove box port on vehicles where the console ports only charge, then pick the sound from the Boombox menu."]},{"heading":"The lock sound","paragraphs":["The manual points to Toybox, Boombox, Lock Sound to change the sound played when the car is locked from the outside, again with the Pedestrian Warning System required. Community guides describe using your own lock sound by putting a file named LockChime.wav at the top level of a USB drive; this is not described in the owner’s manual, so test it on your car and software version."]},{"heading":"Make spoken sounds in any voice","paragraphs":["Hear voices free on their pages with a line of 30 to 100 characters, no account needed, from movie and game characters to calm announcers. Then install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and run, for example, superclonica --text \"Please step back from the vehicle.\" --voice voice.json --lang en --normalize --output step_back.wav. Keep horn sounds under five seconds, since only the first five play, and keep lock sounds very short. --normalize gives every file the same loudness."]},{"heading":"Use it considerately","paragraphs":["Outside speakers reach people who did not choose to listen, so keep lines friendly and short, and follow local rules. Character voices in the catalog are fan-made; use them for fun, not to imitate a real person. You can also train your own voice in the studio from a 5 to 10 second recording. The engine speaks 31 languages; Chinese is not supported yet."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I add custom Boombox sounds to my Tesla?","answer":"Format a USB drive as exFAT, FAT, ext3 or ext4, create a single folder named Boombox, add up to five WAV or MP3 files and plug it into a front or glove box USB port, then choose the sound in Boombox."},{"question":"How long can a Boombox horn sound be?","answer":"The owner’s manual says the horn plays the first five seconds of the sound."},{"question":"How do I change the Tesla lock sound?","answer":"Use Toybox, Boombox, Lock Sound; the Pedestrian Warning System is required. A custom file named LockChime.wav is a community-reported method not described in the manual."},{"question":"Can my Tesla say something in a character’s voice?","answer":"Yes. Make the line with a catalog voice in SuperClonica, save it as WAV or MP3 and add it as a Boombox sound."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse movie and series voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine","voices":"movies-and-series"},"sources":[{"label":"Tesla Model Y Owner’s Manual: Theater, Arcade, and Toybox (Boombox)","url":"https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-79A49D40-A028-435B-A7F6-8E48846AB9E9.html"},{"label":"Tesla Model Y Owner’s Manual: Doors (Lock Sound)","url":"https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-7A32EC01-A17E-42CC-A15B-2E0A39FD07AB.html"},{"label":"SuperClonica engine on PyPI","url":"https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"windows-custom-system-sounds","path":"/guides/windows-custom-system-sounds","h1":"Custom Windows sounds: make your PC speak its notifications"},{"slug":"ollama-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/ollama-text-to-speech","h1":"Ollama text to speech: make your local model talk, fully offline"},{"slug":"loudspeaker-car-ad-voice","path":"/guides/loudspeaker-car-ad-voice","h1":"Loudspeaker car ad voice: street ads that people understand"},{"slug":"waze-custom-voice","path":"/guides/waze-custom-voice","h1":"Waze custom voice: drive with directions in any voice"},{"slug":"supertonic-3-voices","path":"/guides/supertonic-3-voices","h1":"Supertonic 3 voices: where to get custom voices and how to use them"},{"slug":"google-slides-ai-voiceover","path":"/guides/google-slides-ai-voiceover","h1":"How to add an AI voiceover to Google Slides"},{"slug":"talking-clock-voice","path":"/guides/talking-clock-voice","h1":"Talking clock voice: build your own speaking clock in any voice"},{"slug":"twilio-custom-voice","path":"/guides/twilio-custom-voice","h1":"Twilio custom voice: play your own text-to-speech audio"},{"slug":"pipecat-custom-tts","path":"/guides/pipecat-custom-tts","h1":"A custom TTS service for Pipecat: give your voice bot any voice"},{"slug":"make-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/make-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech in Make.com: one HTTP module, any voice"},{"slug":"mario-voice","path":"/guides/mario-voice","h1":"Mario voice generator: AI text to speech"},{"slug":"sonic-voice","path":"/guides/sonic-voice","h1":"Sonic voice generator: AI text to speech"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}