I would like to see what others are using with Ask Alexa and other TTS capable speakers

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There’s an existing topic for this: [image] Cheap standalone DLNA speaker? Connected Things Continuing the discussion from Working Speakers List (13 Devices Confirmed) so as not to clutter that list: How do you define “cheap”? The Sony SRS X7 is a really nice Bluetooth and DLNA speaker at just under $200 new, or around $120 refurbished. anything cheaper than that is not going to have the same kind of sound quality. The striimlight light bulb runs around $120, and that’s light and speaker. But if I was buying it for the speaker, I’d buy the Sony. Has anyone tried it with the DLNA renderer?

Of course, Sonos speakers capable of being used with Ask Alexa, along anything that is compatible with SmartThings. Some creative members of the community have connected the Alexa with Bluetooth devices (like old cell phones) to allow the Alexas to be their only speakers. Ask Alexa will be getting some new features this year (along with another app I am developing) to allow even more uses with your Alexa and connected speakers, so it is a good time to have connected speakers!

I’ve set up 2 of the $9 CHIP computers already with vlc and cheap speakers for TTS purposes.

In good time…but I will have a whole suite of items focused around Alexa, including notification apps!

I’m using 2 Fabriq speakers that I picked up from Amazon a few weeks ago. The thing that I like about them is you can use the Fabriq iOS or Android app to bind them together into groups for syncronized multi-room speaker playback, and if you have them grouped then when Smartthings sends TTS announcements to the one device added to Smartthings, it’ll play back on the whole group. Although I initially had some issues with Amazon Alexa (it’s push to summon Alexa which I actually like because I don’t want an always listening speaker) but in the past 1-2 weeks it’s worked when I’ve tried it. I like that it has a play button on the speaker that will resume playing the last played stream also (usually NPR for me- though if it has played TTS announcements, sometimes the speaker thinks it needs to play that again instead of the station). With my current configuration, if I’m playing NPR and a TTS announcement happens, it seems to resume playing the station/stream automatically after the announcement about 95% of the time!] I want to pick up at least one more, maybe two. The syncronization seems to work pretty well, so even if you’re listening to music there isn’t a noticeable timing delay when walking between rooms and hearing different speakers, with the two that I have. [image]

I was looking at those, but missed the lightning deal, so decided to wait until faster people had a chance to play with them for a while.

I think I might check these out. I like the fact you can just sync them and you are good.

Looking for recommendations for inexpensive TTS speakers

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JDRoberts February 27, 2017, 12:10am 4

There’s an existing topic for this:

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Cheap standalone DLNA speaker? Connected Things project_av , project_voice	24	25272	April 11, 2020
What is the best inexpensive DIRECTLY INTEGRATED TTS Speaker for voice alerts? Devices & Integrations	26	12144	August 7, 2020
Which speakers to get for easiest TTS set-up with SmartThings? Connected Things	20	9290	June 29, 2018
Cheap, Simple Connected Speaker? Connected Things	22	37023	March 29, 2019
Working Speakers (44 Devices Confirmed , 29 waiting Confirmation) last addition: Klipsch Stadium, Help Us to increase the list Connected Things project_av	219	78014	January 18, 2022

Looking for recommendations for inexpensive TTS speakers

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