Another Amazon Echo Thread (March 2016) (technical/programming discussion)

[JDRoberts]

@scottinpollock

@JDRoberts

They are playing the notifications on the echo itself.

I certainly didn’t glean that from his docs.

Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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 what you need to do Follow this link and install all of the stuff it says. DO NOT USE ver 1.1.14 of Big Talker, DO USE ver 1.1.13. TTS works in the older version and not the newer one. After you do all of that stuff, do this Connect your Android device to your Amazon Echo via Bluetooth. Now your Echo will give you voice notifications. What can you do with this?? You don’t have to use Echo, you can just use a bluetooth speaker or you can use the Android Device. But how totally cool is i…

( you will see several skeptical posts from me, basically saying “really?” But, yes, really. )

As for MPG, that’s a voice error. Should have been MP3. I’ll fix it.