Send text to voice?

Configuration
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I vaguely recalled saw someone’s screenshot that there is text input field, and when you type in some text, it will be converted to sound that says on the echo dot. Could anyone point me to any guide/discussion how to implement that?

Thanks.

2

Do you mean the tts.say service as described here?

3

Your going to confuse the poor guy.

Alexa media player
Use this


For tts notifications
4

Thanks for the info, will be looking into it.

5

Followed installation guide and no issue.

I added a media card with my echo dot, enter some text in the TTS field but getting “Sorry, text to speech can only be called with the media player alexa tts service” Looks this is not supported? I do noticed " Please note we do not support the the Media Player UI for TTS!" in the wiki page. Any other guide to set this up?

For this media card, how do I utilize this media card to play music?

The echo dot connected ok, I am able to call the notify.alexa_media service in the HA service page.

Can’t figure out how to use it. :sweat:

Thanks!

6

The HA media player isnt supported for alexa media its mentioned inb the wiki
Use the mini media player from HACS.

7

Hi Harry, I installed the mini media player plugin from HACS, added it to the UI by below:

      - entity: media_player.xxxx_echo_dot
        type: 'custom:mini-media-player'

click it open popup and enter text, still gave me the same error above.

8

U also need to specify the tts to use
and i think you need to have
alexa:
in your configuration.yaml

- entity: media_player.xxxx_echo_dot
  tts:
    entity:  media_player.xxxx_echo_dot
    platform: alexa
  type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
9

Check out my washing machine notification flow
If you wanting to do more automations with tts or announce.

also the appdameon alexa talking clock app is good.
Its available in HACS

10

Also if you didnt know you can’t tts or announce to any stereo pairs or wha groups just the individuals echo’s.

11

adding tts and entity works now! platform is not needed.

thank you!

12

Probably needed if have more than 1 tts platform’s setup

13

possibly, currently I only have echo dot.

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So how are you doing this i am trying to add the alexa like this

alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret
      password: !secret
      url: amazon.com.mx

alexa:
    - entity: media_player.echo_dot_sala
      tts:
        entity:  media_player.echo_dot_sala
        platform: alexa
      type: 'custom:mini-media-player'

but its giving me an error and i cant restart hassio

15

Hi @juancuellar, this is how you should configure Alea media player for TTS :grinning:

alexa_media:
  accounts:
    - email: !secret
      password: !secret
      url: amazon.com.mx
notify:
  - platform: alexa_media
    name: alexa_media
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i am trying to use this
image

the text to speak at the bottom but its telling me its not working and i should go to the wiki page, the notify service works tho

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The notes for the Alex Media Player component does not support the mediaplayer UI for TTS, so that text box in the mediaplayer card does nothing.

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18

Thank you for the info

19

Can you install mini media in hassio?

20

Can I create a custom automation to use tts or announce feature to have a text to speech feature in Lovelace?