Using HA Voice to broadcast a spoken message to a mediaplayer

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I just started playing around with a HA Voice Preview edition and was wondering if the following is possible and if so if someone can send me into the correct direction how.

I want to send a spoken message to another media-device. So for example if I say “Hey Jarvis, broadcast Hello World to Kitchen” I would want it to broadcast “Hello World” to the Kitchen speaker or if I say “Hey Jarvis, broadcast Hello World” it would just send it to all media devices that accept TTS (or another way to do this).

Basically I am trying to see if I can re-create the broadcast functionality of Google Home and my Google Mini speakers. To see if HA Voice can be a replacement for that functionality.

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Without meddling with the Voice PE software, you can’t do this with built-in sentences, but you can with custom sentences, either by using a custom sentence to trigger an automation

…or by using custom sentences and intents.

Then you can use any media player entity to broadcast the message.

If you want to broadcast the message you’ve just given to the Voice PE, you need to read up on how custom sentences work.

It’s a bit of a rabbit hole… :grin:

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Thanks… I will dive into this. I had kind of suspected it would be a rabbit hole to dive into.

Getting rid of Google is going to take some effort :sweat_smile:

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