Easiest way to set up echo randomly choosing a list of responses (have Echo Speaks)

[Togo23]

1) Give a description of the problem
Want to randomize responses through Alexa that i have prewritten when an event happens. Not sure the easiest/best way to do this. I have Echo Speaks and while Response Designer is amazing with the amount of customizations it can do, I’d rather just build a set of 5 responses into my already built piston. Wasn’t sure if this was possible. I did see random() but tried that with my echo device as the speaker and it just reads literally “random and everything I’ve typed”

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3) What is happening/not happening?
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[ike2018]

Hi there,
You might want to check this out. Not exactly what you are looking for but a great example for playing random mp3’s… Maybe it’ll give you ideas.

For the Kids, not me

completely impractical piston for me, but kids love it. With the push of a minimote, they get a random funny sound or clip from a movie or a tv show (or fart noise). By far my most time consuming creation yet, simply because I had to search the www for wav and mp3 url’s. YOUR WELCOME [funny] (yes I like beer and I’m verified.) @ady624, is there a limit on big I can make this? because I plan on adding more to the variable.

[pmjoen]

Take a look at the following link:

Echo Speaks duplicating announcement

1) Give a description of the problem The announcement is occurring 2 or 3 times right after each other. 2) What is the expected behaviour? When someone arrives and one of the contact sensor changes to closed within 2 minutes, announce personal arrival message 3) What is happening/not happening? It is announcing, but lately it announces a message 2 or 3 times. **4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston [image] 5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full +1ms ╔Received event [Fro…

This was copied/modified from someone else but has what you need with adding the random text to variable and then speaking it.

[TheBearMay]

Something like this?

[Togo23]

Appreciate the quick responses. Going to work through these and report back.

[Togo23]

Think i got it with your help, so definitely appreciated. I did some testing on a test piston and ended up defining a string myMsg with expression = random(“x”,“y”,“z”), then have an action to speak myMsg. Trying this in a much larger piston tomorrow, but don’t see why it wouldn’t work.