Alexa TTS Not working for a while

1

hey guys, i have a problem, i cannot get alexa to say absolutely anything. i have tried all sorts looking on the net and its all talking Chinese and i got no idea whats its talking about. i have updated HA hoping it would fix the issue but to no success.

im really no good with yaml so if possible, it needs to be explain as if a 5 year old can understand lol

HA version is 2022.8.0

getting really frustrated, i’m trying everything that i can see on the net and i either hit a wall due to not knowing what they on about or it just don’t work

2

This works for me, go to developer tools->services and then below the input boxes is a “go to yaml mode” Then paste in below, change the notify service to the appropriate name

service: notify.alexa_media_family_room_dot
data:
  message: hi there
  data: 
   type: tts

for me the “type:tts” was what did it

3

I too, have had some on and off issues with TTS and Alexa… Automations that previously worked, all of a sudden didn’t. For whatever reason, deleting and recreating the service request in the automation got them working again. Didn’t make any changes, just recreated them.

Just my $.02.
Jim

4

Try to add in configuration.yaml

tts:
 - platform:
 google_translate
 language: "en"

Just check for spacing. It very important in yaml files.