Official Alexa Smart Home Skill for openHAB 2

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but can’t find anything about “out of the blue” server side initiated specch.

Maybe this is an option:

Amazon Polly TTS voice service

Pollytts voice service binding 2.2-snapshot is available in the marketplace. PollyTTS is a TTS voice service for Openhab 2.x utilizing a Internet based TTS service provided by amazon called Polly. Polly includes multiple life like voices for a given languages. Can now select different voices within rules depending on the message context. You can find information on Amazon Polly here. Instructions