Alexa Voice Services improvements?

[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!