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How do I get HA to voice announce events? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Buelldozer@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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For instance I want HA to announce that the garage door is opening. I already have the door monitored and can control it via HA.

I have HA integrated with Alexa via Nabu Casa but it appears to be a one way thing where she can ask HA to do something via NC but HA can't ask her to do something...like announce "The Garage Door is Opening."

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[–] rockhstrongo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know that TTS existed. I'll have to look that up.

[–] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They included many voice inprovements in the latest releases. Check out the release notes.