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Re:All New Amazon Echo Dot by OJFord on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:21PM (#12499201)
It doesn't support ad-hoc networking, so although it would be technically possible I imagine the only way for a third-party to implement it would be to record & store on one; download & play on the other.

That said, I think the bigger problem would be triggering it to playback the recording - unless I'm missing something, they just respond to spoken commands.

Which would mean at best you could use it like a voicemail service: "Alexa, play me any messages sent from downstairs".

Re:All New Amazon Echo Dot by xavi on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:24PM (#12499837)
there are rumors about spoken push notifications http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/8/12848586/ama...
Re:All New Amazon Echo Dot by i2shar on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:34PM (#12501387)
FYI: I wrote an app that does that on a Raspberry Pi / Mac: https://github.com/i2shar/express-text-to-speech