Live Squawk Audio: Turning It On and What You Hear

The squawk is live market audio piped straight to your desk: the running commentary that calls out prints, headlines and flow the moment they hit, so you can keep your eyes on the board and still catch what's breaking. It's part of the paid Helious tier. This page covers how to turn it on, what it carries, and why it's cleaned.

Turning it on

The squawk lives on the live [desk](/). Arm it from the squawk control and audio streams in real time; toggle it off when you need quiet. It's a paid-tier feature, so an active subscription is required. If you're not subscribed yet, you can start from the [desk](/) and manage the plan under account. Playback is per-session, so you control when it's live.

Why it's noise-cleaned

Raw squawk audio is a firehose of room noise, background chatter and level swings that wear you down over a session. Helious runs the stream through an AI noise-cleanse before it reaches you, so the voice sits forward and the background falls back. The goal is a channel you can leave on all day without fatigue: signal, not static.

What it carries

The squawk is the audio companion to the market-moving [feed](/): breaking headlines, economic prints as they cross, Fed speakers flagged the moment they speak, and the flow color that doesn't always make it into a written item fast enough. When something lands, you'll often hear it before you can read it, then jump to the [feed](/), the release breakdowns or the rates board for the detail.

Getting the most from it

Run the squawk alongside the desk rather than instead of it: use it as your early-warning channel and let the feed's impact filter and the release breakdowns carry the depth. On a heavy calendar day, a payrolls or CPI morning, the squawk earns its keep by calling the number the instant it prints, seconds ahead of a clean written read.