I have the voice board for my OmniPro II but I never got around to connecting them up to my house speakers. The problem is, I'm not sure I want to run a big Denon amp 24 hours a day.
So its plan B. I have many Amazon Echo's in my house, so why not use them, but how? I know Amazon has skills to announce things and stream things, but I'm not sure how to make use of them. I'm pretty open on how this will work. Maybe feed the text into Alexa for it to read it, or announce it using the OmniPro II voice card somehow. I just want it to announce on ALL the Amazon Echos in the house.
I have one idea. The OmniPro II has custom phrases, so what if I recorded one that said "Alexa Announce" I'd follow this with the message to announce, like "Front Door Open" and play this into an Echo Dot. The Echo would repeat the announcement through the house.
CONS are: Its pretty slow, and takes Alexa a few seconds to repeat it. Also, since I'm speaking with a speaker connected to the OmniPro II sound card and the Echo Dot listens through a mic, audio quality is not the best. Also, if you have two messages in succession, the second one will likely be missed.
PROS are: It should work, and the Echo even adds some sound effects to your message based on content.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
So its plan B. I have many Amazon Echo's in my house, so why not use them, but how? I know Amazon has skills to announce things and stream things, but I'm not sure how to make use of them. I'm pretty open on how this will work. Maybe feed the text into Alexa for it to read it, or announce it using the OmniPro II voice card somehow. I just want it to announce on ALL the Amazon Echos in the house.
I have one idea. The OmniPro II has custom phrases, so what if I recorded one that said "Alexa Announce" I'd follow this with the message to announce, like "Front Door Open" and play this into an Echo Dot. The Echo would repeat the announcement through the house.
CONS are: Its pretty slow, and takes Alexa a few seconds to repeat it. Also, since I'm speaking with a speaker connected to the OmniPro II sound card and the Echo Dot listens through a mic, audio quality is not the best. Also, if you have two messages in succession, the second one will likely be missed.
PROS are: It should work, and the Echo even adds some sound effects to your message based on content.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?