You might want to take a look at this if you have an Android 5.1 device (if not, you can buy one cheap $20 at Walmart). I use this along with Big Talker app and Rule Machine (now withdrawn). It provides pleasant chime, doorbell, siren sounds along with custom TTS.
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…