Alexa Announce Feature - Text to Speach via Alexa now a possability?

[petro]

Why not go with this:

Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed

NOTE: Because of the age of this thread, we can’t edit the first post anymore and it is outdated. For current installation instructions and latest information, please see the Wiki. I’m excited to share with you all a component that I have been working on for the last week that allows controlling amazon echo devices (and clones) directly in home assistant! What This Is: This topic and this post is a place I hope to use to collaborate with enthusiastic Home Assistant users that w…

I set it up this weekend. Took 10 minutes. Basically a guy made a custom_component that uses the calls this thread came up with. Basically don’t need to spend the time doing all this and you get HA elements that work great.