+1 very interested in this!

Just to clarify if we assume this feature ever gets off the ground and into production. Will Alexa speak out loud without human intervention?!? [emoji848]

 

 

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Just to clarify if we assume this feature ever gets off the ground and into production. Will Alexa speak out loud without human intervention?!? [emoji848]

 

 

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Technically, I think it can. But Alexa notifications are not meant to work this way.

 

Alexa notifications that are sent by a skill are sent to a queue, then a visual notification and/or an audio indication is sent to the device. 

 

At this point, a user can ask “Alexa, what did I miss?” or “Alexa, what are my notifications?

 

So, notifications are meant to be retrieved by a vocal request from the end user.

 

Now, I see a possible trick we could use to speak without a request from the user, and it would involve the use of the audio indicator. But that can be tricky, as this means we would need to create on-the-fly an audio file and use it as the audio indicator.

 

I'm not sure if Amazon would approve a skill which does that.

 

Benoit

Technically, I think it can. But Alexa notifications are not meant to work this way.

 

Alexa notifications that are sent by a skill are sent to a queue, then a visual notification and/or an audio indication is sent to the device.

 

At this point, a user can ask “Alexa, what did I miss?” or “Alexa, what are my notifications?

 

So, notifications are meant to be retrieved by a vocal request from the end user.

 

Now, I see a possible trick we could use to speak without a request from the user, and it would involve the use of the audio indicator. But that can be tricky, as this means we would need to create on-the-fly an audio file and use it as the audio indicator.

 

I'm not sure if Amazon would approve a skill which does that.

 

Benoit

Well first do regular ones After that can play with the 'hacked' option

 

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Technically, I think it can. But Alexa notifications are not meant to work this way.

 

Alexa notifications that are sent by a skill are sent to a queue, then a visual notification and/or an audio indication is sent to the device. 

 

At this point, a user can ask “Alexa, what did I miss?” or “Alexa, what are my notifications?

 

So, notifications are meant to be retrieved by a vocal request from the end user.

 

Now, I see a possible trick we could use to speak without a request from the user, and it would involve the use of the audio indicator. But that can be tricky, as this means we would need to create on-the-fly an audio file and use it as the audio indicator.

 

I'm not sure if Amazon would approve a skill which does that.

 

Benoit

 

 

Well first do regular ones After that can play with the 'hacked' option

 

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^ What this man said . . . . 

So did anyone ever figure this one out? Seems like there is an interest for voice notifications from Alexa without having to ask alexa what I missed. 

43 minutes ago, Brett said:

So did anyone ever figure this one out? Seems like there is an interest for voice notifications from Alexa without having to ask alexa what I missed. 

It was announced over your Amazon devices a few days ago. Perhaps you were not there to hear it?

On 5/8/2018 at 11:26 PM, larryllix said:

It was announced over your Amazon devices a few days ago. Perhaps you were not there to hear it?

Alright.... That was pretty good larryllix. I should have seen that coming, well done.