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Sorry, that won’t work. At this time Echo can only respond to commands it receives. Voice notifications are not possible . This is an Amacon restriction.

You can still use your android tablet for voice announcements (with the Smarthings voice):

[RELEASE] LANnouncer with IFTTT

The newest version of LANnouncer is up, now including the ability to be triggered by IFTTT recipes without SmartThings in the middle. Of course the primary features of providing Android Text-to-Speech and sound effects to SmartThings and using the camera (and receiving shots from IP cameras) are still there. Check out… The KeyBounce website, which includes instructions The IFTTT instruction page for LANnouncer The Google Play Store entry for LANnouncer (or you can download it from the website above) The original beta discussion thread for LANnouncer The original release thread Installation with SmartThings requires an ST Device Handler and the Android app. Optionally, for SMS notifications, you can add this SmartApp to your SmartThings installation also. Important: The IFTTT integ…