{"id":221250,"date":"2017-07-24T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221250"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:57:21","slug":"silent-echo-lets-you-talk-to-alexa-on-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221250-silent-echo-lets-you-talk-to-alexa-on-slack.html","title":{"rendered":"Silent Echo lets you talk to Alexa on Slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bespoken has created a bot named <a href=\"https:\/\/silentecho.bespoken.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Silent Echo<\/strong><\/a>, which allows users to interact with Alexa over Slack.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Echo converts text to audio, sends the audio to Alexa, and returns the audio output from Alexa to the user as text.<\/p>\n<p>Users can activate Silent Echo by adding it as a virtual Alexa device on their Amazon account.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Slack users can install the bot and interact with it via instant message or by mentioning the bot in a public channel.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Echo supports Alexa Smart Home skills and custom skills, and is available to install from the <a href=\"https:\/\/silentecho.bespoken.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>official website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/204702-i-built-a-voice-controlled-amazon-echo-using-a-raspberry-pi.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">I built a voice-controlled Amazon Echo using a Raspberry Pi<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bespoken has created a bot named Silent Echo, which allows users to interact with Alexa over Slack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":191362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7431,723,44784,44786,36922],"class_list":["post-221250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-bespoken","tag-silent-echo","tag-slack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221286,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221250\/revisions\/221286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}