beedix
January 17, 2019, 9:58pm
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After spending an hour, I’m sure the current API via Alexa doesn’t have a viable path (at least not yet). SO, I have an idea, but I don’t want to junk up @MichaelS ’s thread for a small use case not using Ask Alexa. So my attempt at an open discussion here:
Background on a use case that will ultimately not work with Alexa as I had hoped. Spawning a separate thread to see if a existing or better path might exist.
I use a bedside alexa to set my morning alarm which isn’t constantly the same time. And I wanted to automate 30 minutes before the set alarm and not when the alarm goes off. Since I verbally set the alarm before I go to bed and alexa won’t expose the alarm set time, I have an idea which with the community, may already be solved. Thought I would run it by.
SO my idea is to use the cloud speech to text engines in parallel (or even in place) of Alexa. Something along these lines:
Small linux device (pi, etc) with a microphone input sitting near where you give your alarm command.
Write a program that listens over the mic 24/7, du…