mapeter Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 (edited) This is not a TTS request to say ad-hoc phrases. What I am thinking is a way in the ISY Portal for us to associate responses to a device/scene/program that Alexa will say instead of "OK". There would be two responses. The first for TRUE/On/Open/Turn-up and the second for FALSE/Off/Close/Turn-down. This provides the benefit of letting us know that the correct Spoken Node in the portal was invoked. The use case that made me think of it was a desire to trigger a program that turns off the radio and TV in my master suite after 20 minutes. "Alexa, Turn on Sleep 20". The problem is that nothing happens immediately, only after 20 minutes. When she responds "OK" you don't really know if she heard the command correctly. I have had instances where my pronunciation of "on" and "off" weren't clear enough for her and she got the command backwards. I could have the program flash a light or beep some SwitchLincs/KeypadLincs when invoked to let me know that it was invoked. However, it would be more polished (and cool) if she acknowledged with a phrase: Request: "Alexa, Turn on Sleep 20"; Response (TRUE): "Devices will be turned off in 20 minutes" Request: "Alexa, Turn off Sleep 20"; Response (FALSE): "Sleep mode Cancelled" Edited March 3, 2016 by mapeter Quote Link to comment
Xathros Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I think a TTS solution would be more flexible and allow us to custom code the responses to each use case. I expect Amazon will eventually get around to allowing this. In the meantime, I agree, the ability to set a different canned response for on and off actions would be helpful. -Xathros Quote Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Hi mapeter, Unfortunately there are no APIs that allow the Portal to tell Alexa what to say in the Connected Home realm. With kind regards, Michel Quote Link to comment
jerlands Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Amazon has indicated or at least acknowledged interest in push notifications but I think the issue is security and preventing unsolicited verbiage. It seems Connected Home would offer tighter control but I think it's a possibility in the future. Jon... Quote Link to comment
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