You don’t even need echo speaks. Amazon offers its own routines (not SmartThings routines) which allow you to have any echo device in your home speak any custom phrase that you want. Or you can have all of them say the same thing.
No custom code required and it’s really easy to use. So unless you have a particular reason for not using echo dots, I think they have become the inexpensive device of choice for this particular use case now.
