Amazon Alexa Access

[Andy Poggio]

Hi Jeffrey,

I thought of that but didn’t try it.  I really want a software API interface, rather than an acoustic one.

It’s hare to believe this doesn’t exist.

—andy


> On Sep 29, 2022, at 6:30 PM, Jeffrey Lomicka <JeffreyLomicka at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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