I have a few automations sending TTS to our Google Home Minis.
One of them has a bluetooth speaker attached permanently.
Unfortunately when Google sends audio to BT speakers, there’s a very short delay in the audio, so you will loose the first few sounds. This doesn’t matter for music, but it doesn’t work for speach.
I would very much like to direct speech to the internal speaker for the google home’s if possible?
Another option might be to insert a pause at the start of the text. I do google home announcements using nodered and am able to pause for 1.5 seconds to let bluetooth connections complete.
I don’t know if it’s possible with HA TTS …
'<speak><break time="1.5s"/>' & original.message & '</speak>'
Hmm, don’t see how to do that with Google TTS
I have the same problem, i need to play the notification on the home itself and the music on the attached bluetooth speaker…any way to do this?