Best TTS Speaker

[Jimxenus]

I use LANnouncer on an Android 5.1 device along with an smartapp called Bigtalker or CoRE. I find this combination does an excellent job of audible notifications from SmartThings. You can hook up the Android device to external speakers for better sound.

[Release] V2 of LANNouncer

As announced previously in the LANNouncer Announcement Thread, LANNouncer is a combination Device Handler, SmartApp and Android app bringing text-to-speech to SmartThings through Android devices. A few months ago I added GCM (Google Messaging) support, allowing IFTTT to interact with LANNouncer directly also. This month I’ve added: Custom audio files - select your own sounds Stop command - because you may only want that sound until it is acknowledged via Aeon Remote (e.g.) WAN support - because GCM is, it turns out, often slow and unreliable. And you might not want Google knowing everything about you There are some other goodies and stability fixes also. Head over to the main discussion page for more. As always, you can get everything from the LANnouncer web page, and the app eith…

[OBSOLETE 1.1.12 3/13/2017] Big Talker - Talk when events occur

NOTICE: BigTalker 1.x (1.1.12 and prior) is no longer being maintained. It has been deprecated. For the latest information, please see the documentation posted at: http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=BigTalker and/or the latest discussion thread: https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-bigtalker-2-x/118105 . . Version 1.1.12 release announcement (updated post 3/12/2017 with 1.1.11 release) (updated post 3/13/2017 with 1.1.12 release) Update 2/6/2018 BigTalker 1.1.12 code has moved to https://github.com/rayzurbock/BigTalker GitHub Integration Settings have changed to: Owner: rayzurbock Name: BigTalker Branch: master [image] This version is no longer being maintained. BigTalker 2.0.0 is the latest release. Settings will not transfer from 1.1.12 to 2.0.0 as…