Voicemonkey goes premium / alternatives?

Third party integrations
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Received an email today the contents of which were:

Thanks for using Voice Monkey!:monkey:

We recently experienced a huge surge in new Voice Monkey users and our operating costs have significantly increased.

It means we can’t continue to offer VM for free :see_no_evil:. So, we’ve introduced the PRO Plan! :raised_hands:

GO PRO

For just $6 per year (yup, per year!) you get access to Unlimited Monkeys, Text To Speech, exclusive PRO features plus some new additions: Yes/No Prompts, Presets, Audio and Chimes!

You can try PRO FREE for 14 days starting today!

I know $6 a year is peanuts but given how much work I put into not paying for HA Cloud (hello Haaska!) I’m not keen to pay for the two commands I actually use.

Anyone got any free alternatives? Basically all I need is to push a voice message to Alexa when a switch on HA is triggered.

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Why not use alexa this:
Home · alandtse/alexa_media_player Wiki · GitHub

EDIT: Sorry meant this one:

Exactly what I use it for, messages and announcements on alexa

BTW: my alexa dos not work anymore since todays outage. although it should be over it still doesn’t work for me…

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Emulated hue and instead of push message and announce, alexa watch switch state and announce using alexa routine

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Thanks I do have this already but didn’t think it could just make it speak, hence using an automation with voicemonkey on HA and a routine on Alexa. Mine made me reauthenticate today but is working,

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Hmm, I don’t really want to use emulated hue when I have Haaska “talking” to Alexa already, but it may be that I can do this already, thx

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All I had to do was here.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/alexa-announcement-in-script/283158

Thanks both for help and making me realise I was overcomplicating matters.

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