Alexa Sound effects?

[fryguy04]

I'd like to have a sound effect instead of TTS "Door Open"

According to this Alexa Sound Library link, seems like it should be possible to embed in the "speak" variable (could be mistaken) like this:

<speak>
    This is Alexa's regular speech, followed by the sound effect "bear groan roar (1)".
    <audio src='soundbank://soundlibrary/animals/amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01'/>
</speak>

Tried this but not working ... any thoughts?

./alexa_remote_control.sh -d "ALL" -e "speak:'test'.<audio src='soundbank://soundlibrary/home/amzn_sfx_door_open_01'/>"

[walthowd]

You would probably want to start by removing all the escaping at line 345:

ha-alexa-tts/alexa_remote_control.sh

Line 345 in 610f590

TTS=$(echo ${COMMAND##*:} | ${SED} -r 's/[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.,?! ]//g' | sed 's/ /_/g')

[fryguy04]

playing around with it now ... simple things not working (like removing sed) ... if anyone has ability to sniff a 'normal' Alexa packet with this sound I'd be up for coding the rest ... I just don't know what 'normal' looks like

Here's what it is sending currently and getting a response of {"Message":null}

{
  "@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.Sequence", "startNode": {
    "@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.OpaquePayloadOperationNode",
    "type": "Alexa.Speak",
    "operationPayload": {
      "deviceType": "XXXXXXXXXXXX",
      "deviceSerialNumber": "XXXXXXXXXXX",
      "locale": "en-US",
      "customerId": "XXXXXXXXX",
      "textToSpeak": "speak:'testing'.<audio src='soundbank://soundlibrary/home/amzn_sfx_door_open_01'/>"
     }
   }
 }