List of available sounds that can be played on Amazon Echo devices

Cplant · January 16, 2022, 11:09am

Through some googling I found the following three sounds are available as an alarm sound with an Amazon Echo device:

system_alerts_repetitive01

system_alerts_atonal_02

system_alerts_soothing_01

Interestingly the syntax / expected strings are not fix (they also appear to work without the numbers).

Since only two of those three are listed in the Amazon Echo Control Binding documentation, my question is: Is this it? Or are there more sounds that can be played?

Wolfgang_S · January 16, 2022, 11:17am

Have a look at:

Cplant · January 16, 2022, 11:45am

Thanks!

Two quick follow-up questions on that:

My three examples mentioned above do not appear in that Amazon-list. Are they of a different type?
I’m not 100% sure yet on the usage of the items in that Amazon-list. The example mentions in the article (soundbank://soundlibrary/animals/amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01), dows not work if being used like this in openHAB…

events.sendCommand('Echo_Bad_AlarmSound', 'soundbank://soundlibrary/animals/amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01');

and using it like this…

events.sendCommand('Echo_Bad_AlarmSound', 'amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01');

plays the normal “system_alerts_repetitive01”-sound (so some interpretation is going on in the background).

Am I misunderstanding something here?

What’s also a bit confusing: The Amazon-list mentions the jingle-names with lots of " " (blanks) in between

but their example above uses a different syntax:

Wolfgang_S · January 16, 2022, 1:00pm

It is some time ago that I played a bit with it. A the time I tried it I used something like

Echo_Living_Room_PlayAlarmSound.sendCommand('ECHO:system_alerts_melodic_02')

in a DSL rule.

Cplant · February 6, 2022, 11:57am

Thanks.

I now figured out the syntax to play sounds. What’s important:

In order to use one of the three continuous alarms (system_alerts_repetitive01, system_alerts_atonal_02, system_alerts_soothing_01) they have to be sent to .playAlarmSound
Example:
events.sendCommand("Echo_Bad_AlarmSound", "system_alerts_atonal_02");
In order to use the sounds listed here Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library | Alexa Skills Kit they have to be sent to to .textToSpeech in the following syntax.
Example:
events.sendCommand("Echo_Bad_Speak", '<speak>Alarm! <audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/></speak>');

The only thing I have not yet managed to get done: Playing an alarm without the need to say a word upfront. In my case, just sending a sound without a word upfront results in not playing anything at all.

J-N-K · February 6, 2022, 12:30pm

Did you try sending something like a . or similar? That’s not spoken text, but not empty. IIRC TTS messages without any text are discarded.

Cplant · February 6, 2022, 12:35pm

Good idea.

I just tried out a couple of special characters (,.~§%&), and they’re all spoken out… So “Alarm!” appears to be the best alternative.

Boxington · April 12, 2022, 6:01pm

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I’ve been trying to get Echo to play a soundbank sound without spoken text. Thought I’d add this as it seems to work for me:

KitchenEcho_Speak.sendCommand('<speak><audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/musical/amzn_sfx_electronic_beep_01"/>...</speak>')

I’d guess that the ellipsis is interpreted as a pause? Hope it helps.

Cplant · April 21, 2022, 7:04pm

Thanks for your addition, @Boxington.

I just tried out your solution, both “…” (as three dots) as well as “…” (the single ASCII character), and all of them are spoken out by Alexa in one senseful way or another. Maybe it’s because I’m using the German Alexa.

So for now I’ll stick to adding “Alarm!” as a word upfront and then play the sound. This also somehow makes sense in my use case.

zzzZZZzzz · July 24, 2022, 12:51pm

I’m playing around with an Echo Dot and everything works fine, except for TTS and Announcements. I already changed the TTS volume to 100. Alarms work fine, so do reminders.
The log looks fine to me but there is no speech output:

2022-07-24 14:34:58.251 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent      ] - Item 'Echo_Living_Room_TTS' received command Hellolololo
2022-07-24 14:34:58.254 [INFO ] [penhab.event.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - Item 'Echo_Living_Room_TTS' predicted to become Hellolololo
2022-07-24 14:34:58.264 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Echo_Living_Room_TTS' changed from  to Hellolololo
2022-07-24 14:34:59.437 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Echo_Living_Room_TTS' changed from Hellolololo to

Any idea on what might be the issue?

Items:

String Echo_Living_Room_PlayAlarmSound         "Play Alarm Sound"                      (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:26b50707a0:G090XG1002440E4G:playAlarmSound"}
String Echo_Living_Room_Announcement           "Announcement"                          (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:26b50707a0:G090XG1002440E4G:announcement"}
String Echo_Living_Room_TTS                    "Text to Speech"                        (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:26b50707a0:G090XG1002440E4G:textToSpeech"}
Dimmer Echo_Living_Room_TTS_Volume             "Text to Speech Volume"                 (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:26b50707a0:G090XG1002440E4G:textToSpeechVolume"}
String Echo_Living_Room_Remind                 "Remind"                                (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:26b50707a0:G090XG1002440E4G:remind"}

Sitemap for testing:

Selection item=Echo_Living_Room_PlayAlarmSound mappings=[ ''='None', 'ECHO:system_alerts_melodic_01'='Adrift', 'ECHO:system_alerts_melodic_02'='Clangy']
Selection item=Echo_Living_Room_TTS mappings=[ ''='None', 'Hallo'='Adrift', '<speak>I want to tell you a secret.<amazon:effect name="whispered">I am not a real human.</amazon:effect>.Can you believe it?</speak>'='Clangy']
Selection item=Echo_Living_Room_Announcement mappings=[ ''='None', 'Hallo'='Adrift', '{"sound": false, "title": "Doorstep", "body": "Door opened"}'='Clangy']
Selection item=Echo_Living_Room_Remind mappings=[ ''='None', 'Hallo'='Adrift', '<speak>I want to tell you a secret.<amazon:effect name="whispered">I am not a real human.</amazon:effect>.Can you believe it?</speak>'='Clangy']
Default item=Echo_Living_Room_TTS_Volume

Cplant · July 25, 2022, 7:57pm

Below what has always worked for me:

Link between Thing and Item:

Test rule (javascript):
events.sendCommand('Echo_Dot_Wohnzimmer_Speak', '<speak>Test<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/>Test</speak>');

Corresponding log:

2022-07-25 21:53:10.686 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent      ] - Item 'Echo_Dot_Wohnzimmer_Speak' received command <speak>Test<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/>~</speak>
2022-07-25 21:53:10.700 [INFO ] [penhab.event.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - Item 'Echo_Dot_Wohnzimmer_Speak' predicted to become <speak>Test<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/>~</speak>
2022-07-25 21:53:10.714 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Echo_Dot_Wohnzimmer_Speak' changed from  to <speak>Test<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/>~</speak>
2022-07-25 21:53:11.930 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Echo_Dot_Wohnzimmer_Speak' changed from <speak>Test<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/scifi/amzn_sfx_scifi_alarm_06"/>~</speak> to

Hope this helps.

messiah · December 6, 2022, 7:45pm

This works

AmazonEchoBuro_Sprich.sendCommand('<speak><audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/musical/amzn_sfx_electronic_beep_01"/>|</speak>')