Yes, that’s one of the very cool things about it. You don’t need to use it as a doorbell at all, you can just use it as a sound player. Or you could trigger sound based on a pressure mat under the welcome mat at the door, or a camera detecting motion, or even time of day. One community member is using it as an hourly clock chime. Quite a few people are using it with core.
Here’s one very popular device type handler for it.