I have no idea if that has been done yet, I have done a little bit of a search with no results on this particular subject… But tonight I got my Amazon Echo to say, “The Front Door is Open” when my front door opened! It is customizable as to what I want it to say. It’s freakin Awesome!!! Here is w…

Yep, The Echo was the main reason for my Wife’s approval on HA expansion :smile: I have this running on a Tablet for almost 4 months now and it works perfect. Android Tablet, connected via Bluetooth to Echo, running Private Dancer (DLNA Render), Automate (for task automations), SharpTools, SmartTil…

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Thanks! worked, going to try this today.

[image] bamarayne: Now, @bravenel , can we get this into Rule Machine??? Lol LOL indeed. Your wish is my command. Check out Rule Machine , now with the ability to speak a message.

You should be able to have Morgan Freeman talk to you via Echo using the VLC Thing Device Type with VLC installed on a Windows/Mac/Linux machine. Then you just redirect the audio output from the computer to the Echo using Bluetooth. I just setup VLC Thing with my Raspberry Pi B+ but I’m experiencing…

I got to the point where i can play the test from my phone and have it play on the Echo, however its super jerky and not smooth, the bluetooth connection between the Echo and my computer I guess sucks :frowning:

Unfortunately the voice is not as smooth as Alexa. That’s because Alexa us text to speech and this is voice synthesis… at least that’s how I understand it. Something I did that helps… Make your message just like this, including the dots …This is a test This dots cause a pause, which helped min…

My wife told me she’d kill me if I didn’t get rid of that voice immediately. I even had it telling her how beautiful and wise she is. Man, four dots doesn’t fix that!!

Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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bravenel (Bruce) December 31, 2015, 8:16pm 34

LOL indeed. Your wish is my command. Check out Rule Machine, now with the ability to speak a message.

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Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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