Sound notification (Alexa)

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It depends on how you’d like to do it. There are no notifications native to Alexa right now, but since you obviously have push notifications built into ST that display on your phone, there are a few ways that you can resolve this to suit you.

Buy a Sonos (or other WiFi speakers) and push notifications to it as TTS (Text-to-Speech) or a media file.

Sonos Notifications - Morgan Freeman edition

A while back I was looking for a change to the robotic voice used for Sonos notifications so I found a guy out on fiverr.com that did Morgan Freeman voice impersonations. These phrases are pretty tailored to my setup, but I thought someone out there might get some use out of a couple of them. UPDATE - I added some more phrases for a bit more granularity with the responses, and removed the ones that did not pertain to the Morgan Freeman voice impersonation Morgan Freeman impersonation phrases: Mail has arrived Motion detected Motion in basement Motion in garage Motion in game room Motion in bedroom Motion in living room Motion in theater Motion in wine cellar Motion in kitchen A door opened A door closed Front door opened Front door closed Front door locked Front door unlocked Back door…

Use a Bluetooth or 3.5mm connected speaker to output the TTS or a media file.

RELEASE Generic Media Renderer (DLNA Speakers). Cheap Sonos Alternative (Update V2)

This Smart App and device type allows you to use any DLNA Media Renderer to receive Sonos-like sound and voice notifications from SmartThings. You must to install the MediaRenderer_Connect to find any Generic Media Renderer (Network Speaker) The MediaRender Player is the device type needed to control each Media Renderer. If you dont have a Media Renderer like Smart TV or Network Speaker with DLNA you can test it with Foobar2000 program installing de upnp commponent. The commponent allows you to convert the player in a Media Renderer (Verify your firewall do not block the foobar2000 port ) I have tried some Media Renderers, but is better if you give me a feedback of the models that works for you. Tip : Please, just install one time the MediaRenderer Connect from the phone, If you have…

Use a computer or other connected device to push the TTS to a speaker.

Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

I have no idea if that has been done yet, I have done a little bit of a search with no results on this particular subject… But tonight I got my Amazon Echo to say, “The Front Door is Open” when my front door opened! It is customizable as to what I want it to say. It’s freakin Awesome!!! Here is what you need to do Follow this link and install all of the stuff it says. DO NOT USE ver 1.1.14 of Big Talker, DO USE ver 1.1.13. TTS works in the older version and not the newer one. After you do all of that stuff, do this Connect your Android device to your Amazon Echo via Bluetooth. Now your Echo will give you voice notifications. What can you do with this?? You don’t have to use Echo, you can just use a bluetooth speaker or you can use the Android Device. But how totally cool is i…

Use your phone to output TTS or a media file. This can be done by a notification reader app.

• Android: Shouter
• Android: Audify
• Spoken Notifications iPhone Hack
• iOS Boxcar(discontinued)

Any other variations of the above involving a computer, amplifier (connected or not), tablet, etc.

A media file would be a pre-recorded message that corresponds with the event. I really like Rachel (English UK) from Acapela. Otherwise you would push the message via pure text to be converted to speech by an app or other renderer.

I hope this helps.