Alexa Voice Services improvements?

[btcompute]

Has anyone seen this report:

Amazon improves Alexa Voice Services, which lets developers add Alexa’s voice...

[Belgarion (David)]

Hmm… this may be a bit of a stumbling block for ST coders that may want to play around with AVS:

In order to use the Alexa Voice Service API (v20160207), your device must be able to create and maintain a persistent HTTP/2 connection with the Alexa Voice Service. The following client libraries have been reviewed and are recommended for use:

According to the GitHub listing of available HTTP/2 specifications, we would need the ST cloud version of “http-2”, or some such equivalent.

If I am reading this correctly.

Implementations

[joshua_lyon (Josh, SharpTools.io Dashboard)]

It looks like @Ule is using some of the Alexa services in their new SmartApp:

[RELEASE] Text to Alexa, "Tell me a joke","did Chelsea win?" or any question

This function allows you to send commands to alexa service , and you can hear the audio in your speakers, you dont need to have an echo or even an amazon account, just to use this app. You can ask something like “Tell me a joke” , “What’s the weather in New York?”,“when do the Seattle Storm play next?”, or any question you like T answer going to play in the speaker you have selected This is in a beta stage, but works great You can use this too to send messages like “the door it’s open”, “Time to sleep” or any sentence you want, alexa can repeat if you send the command “Alexa, Simon says, your sentence”, you must to just add a #s = “Alexa, Simon says”. When you ask, you no need to write Alexa, just the question, “Tell me a joke” or if you want Alexa repeat just “#s the mail has arrived…

For the Alexa requests, it looks like Ule is passing the requests off to a webapp at tts.freeoda.com – I’m not sure if this is something Ule developed, but a quick Google search only finds it in the SmartApp code linked above, so I am guessing so!

[ule]

Hi @joshua_lyon, I have release a Speech to alexa- smarthing method, now you can speak to alexa, try it and let me know

[RELEASE] Poor Man's Echo (Ok Google), A cheap way to control the house by voice

Hi, Now you can speech to Alexa and send the audio to speakers in smarthings, You just need an android phone. nothing more, I´m not a Android User but, I have read somethig about google now, you can speak and google now search in web, but google now do not allow to add a new search engine. Then I have installed Firefox browser, Firefox allows you to add a new search engine and allows to use the mic to search in the web, eureka! In this way I have added a new search engine (the smarthings alexa connect url) and firefox allow me to speech (touching the little mic in search box) and send the text to smartthings app. You can use Google Now with automate and tasker now. “Automate” is free and very easy to config “Tasker Now” is about 1 dollar I have several cheap android phone with auto…