Possible to make Echo device say something?

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I’m still getting up to speed with home assistant, so far I’ve mainly just been using it to automate different light scenes when I start or stop or movie or turn on my Xbox.

I’ve seen some posts about making a Google device speak but I can’t find anything for Echo devices, is it possible to trigger them to say something?

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https://community.home-assistant.io/search?q=make%20alexa%20speak

This is popular custom integration:

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If using nabu casa or you set up Alexa Smart Home Skill (The manual hard way)

otherwise use the alexa media player custom integration.

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(I’m a beginner and I searched for “make alexa say something”, and this was the fifth result. So maybe another beginner might find this and find it helpful…)
Create an automation such as this:

alias: Hello Joanne
description: "makes Alexa speak"
trigger: []
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.alexa_media_gareth_s_2nd_echo_dot
    data:
      message: Hello Joanne
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