Is there any way for HA to trigger Alexa to say something (something custom - as dictated by HA)? What about Google Assistant? What about the Google Assistant for hass.io ? I’m trying to determine what my options are for an automation that looks like this… HA checks weather HA sees that it’s lik…

I’m not sure about Alexa, but with the google home you can use tts.google_say with the data of {"message": "your message to speak", "entity_id":"the entity id of your google home"}.

Thanks, kjr1995! Do you know if that’s a local command? Or do Google’s servers need to get involved?

Yes, Google servers are involved to generate the MP3 file to be announced. So you will need an active internet connection for this announcement. Alternatively you can record your own MP3 and send the command directly to you media player

You could also look into Amazon Polly , as it doesn’t take long to get bored with the way the Google Home speaks your text. Polly supports SSML which allows you to insert pauses, emphasis, pitch, rate etc. There’s a free tier for a year, and after that you get charged per million characters, so it’s…

Thanks, michaelblight! Now we’re talking! How do I get Amazon Polly setup and working with HA? Also, any way to keep things local?

Check out this thread. If you aren’t afraid of a little coding you can use Appdaemon to send text to this and it will output it on the desired alexa unit. [image] Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed Custom Integrations NOTE: Because of the age of this t…

[image] turboc: Right now, I have mine telling me when the back door is opened if it’s after we have set the nighttime mode at the house. I open the door and Alexa pops up and says “the back door is open, please remember to close and lock it when you are done”. VERY cool! I’m not afraid of co…

you can also look at this for the Google option (apparently its much nicer sounding than the usual TTS: [image] Community Hass.io Add-on: Google Assistant Webserver (broadcast messages without interrupting music) Home Assistant OS Hello everyone! Just recently, I was abl…

Triggering voice announcements from HA

Third party integrations

sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave) September 18, 2018, 4:52am 11

you can also look at this for the Google option (apparently its much nicer sounding than the usual TTS: