MM Alexa speech to text

[magmirusr]

@sdetweil
I do have a real Echo device…
Yes I’m familiar with the MMM-AlexaControl module but it seems that you can’t send customized notifications to other modules.
So basically all I want is to say something like “Open Youtube and search for xy”.

[sdetweil]

@magmirusr yeh, you can do the youtube thing, but not the what … as the ‘switch’ isn’t smart, only on or off…

on that other platform. almost all the things I would want to ask alexa are implemented locally
spotify, youtube,

and the audio control for home automation works the same as real alexa.

[MMRIZE]

@magmirusr
Idk alexa, but for google assistant embeded machine(e.g. home mini) you can do that already. So I think ideally possible with alexa. Just no one have had interest in it to imply.

[sdetweil]

@mmrize ga uses text in both directions, Alexa is all audio

I have implentations of both., so I am aware of the differences.

[arora1mayank]

@sdetweil can alexa play youtube or songs?

[sdetweil]

@arora1mayank no… Amazon reserves those functions for hardware manufacturers paying license fees
from the avs device console, entertainment tab,
underline is mine

none of us opensource have a ‘your Amazon point of contact’

[arora1mayank]

@sdetweil so i need to talk to amazon or google to pay license fees?

[sdetweil]

@arora1mayank I do not know how you do it… far as I know, we are not hardware makers (like a closed echo device, or Anker Viva https://goroav.com/pages/viva)

if u click the MSP link, there is a table of supported music services by geographic region.

[arora1mayank]

@sdetweil but what if I start selling my magic mirror with free developer google SDKs. what can google or bugsounet do?

[sdetweil]

@arora1mayank i do not know. I am not a lawyer