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You need Alexa Media Player
This integration will allow you to call a service that does TTS for whatever text you send it. I use it to announce when my wife gets home if I’m in the study at the back of the house. I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”
I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”
This is basically what I'm looking for! Thanks for the link to the Alexa Media player, do you happen to know of a write up for putting the HA / TTS / AMP pieces together?
Text-to-speech (TTS), perhaps?
Create an automation that gets triggered by the garage door being open, and use TTS as the action. Play it on a media player entity you have connected to HA.
I didn't know that TTS existed. I'll have to look that up.
They included many voice inprovements in the latest releases. Check out the release notes.