I love to tinker as much as the next person on making things work I even cobbled together local TTS using Lannouncer on a old Moto phone tied to a aging intercom line input from the headphone jack on the phone. So many homes today have a Amazon or Google smart speakers and each time I look at the a…

Not sure, is this what you are looking for? [image] [Deprecated] Amazon Alexa Text to Speech (TTS) v0.6.2 - Direct Integration (USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Australia, & Brazil) ⚙️ Custom Apps and Drivers FYI - I am moving the status of this integration to DEPRECATED, as I hav…

[image] ronv42: If there is a simple solution to say use a Amazon device natively with TTS and I missed it can someone point me in the right direction? The easiest, no custom code, way to accomplish this is to use Virtual Contact Sensors as Alexa Routine Triggers. In the Alexa Routine, add a…

Thanks for the suggestions folks. Alexa routines makes me edit in multiple locations along with not leveraging the Hubitat's ability to put together a string that can be spoken. The Direct integration is interesting but looking at the code you need a NodeJS service up and running and cookie renewa…

If you want simple, just buy an IKEA Symfonisk speaker (which is actually a Sonos speaker.) Hubitat will Discover it and it does TTS very nicely. I wrote the aforementioned Alexa TTS Mnager integration, and I prefer the Symfonisk solution. :wink:

Thanks @ogiewon I will take a look at the IKEA speaker.

The native Chromecast integration (beta) supports TTS on any google smart speaker, display, nest wifi point or chromecast device. Works great, simple to use and has been very reliable for me.

If Amazon or Google would just allow API access to the TTS engine for their service it would make things so much easier. But we know both companies have moved away from this model and want to be the hub of all home automation.

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JBrown August 16, 2020, 5:23pm 2

Not sure, is this what you are looking for?