Amazon Alexa Access

[Jeffrey Lomicka]

I once tried having a computer in the same room speak out the command 
with speech synthesis, but that was highly unreliable. You might do 
better having it play a prerecorded message of your own voice.

On 9/29/22 9:24 27PM, Andy Poggio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have several ways to talk to Alexa:  iPhone app and several Alexa devices (e.g. an Echo Dot) around the house.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to “talk” to Alexa from XTension running on a Mac?  By that I mean send a text string to Alexa and have Alexa act on it.  For example, I want to be able to send to Alexa the text string “play the beatles”.  Either an XTension plugin or a language API (for Applescript/Java/Python) will work for me.
>
> Note:  I don’t want to create a new Alexa skill; there is plenty of software for that.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> —andy
>
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