What's new with Voice Monkey?

Reminders with countdowns

Schedule one-off or recurring announcements on up to 10 Speakers. Add lead-up announcements ("5 minutes left") and a spoken final countdown. Recurring reminders are part of the Hobby and Ultimate plans.

Your own voices with ElevenLabs

Connect your ElevenLabs account and use its voices anywhere you'd pick an Alexa voice: announcements, Flows and reminders. You can even clone your own voice in ElevenLabs from a short recording and have your Echos sound just like you. Part of the Hobby and Ultimate plans.

Integrations page

A new Integrations page in the console brings ElevenLabs, AI assistants, IFTTT, Home Assistant and Flic buttons together in one place.

Alexa region fixed automatically

If announcements reported success but never played, your account could be pointed at the wrong Alexa region. Voice Monkey now spots this and fixes it automatically.

Usage endpoint and no_bg

A new usage endpoint returns your request count for the month, and the no_bg parameter is back for hiding the Voice Monkey logo on Echo Show.

Screens

Design your own visuals for Echo Show, Echo Spot and Fire TV: clocks, dashboards, countdowns, noticeboards, photo frames and control panels with buttons. Buttons can run a Flow, trigger a Routine or set a variable. Show a Screen from the API, a Flow, a webhook or an AI assistant.

Better Question nodes

Questions in Flows now show one button per answer on screen devices, can use any voice and your variables, and can show your own background image.

Built-in variables

Placeholders like {VM.TIME.TEXT12}, {VM.DATE.WEEKDAY} and {VM.RANDOM.DICE} are filled in for you using your timezone. Variables now work in API announcements and webhook actions too.

Multi-room Speakers

Speakers that talk on several Echos now play on every one of them, in the right order.

Flow editor upgrades

• Pinch-to-zoom on the Flow canvas.
• Select several nodes to move or delete them together.
• Search your Flows list.
• Duplicate a Flow in one click.

Import from v2

One-click import tools bring your v2 devices, Flows, webhooks, variables and media files into v3, so you don't have to start from scratch.

AI assistants

Voice Monkey now has an MCP server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP app and ask it, in plain English, to make announcements, trigger Routines, run Flows and more.

A new console

Speakers and Routine Triggers sit under a single "Alexa Voice Monkey v3" device in the Alexa app instead of one virtual doorbell each.

A visual Flow editor

Build Flows by dragging nodes onto a canvas, or start from a template. Web Request responses can be used in later announcements and variables.".

API v3

A new API at api-v3.voicemonkey.io with /announce, /trigger, /flow, /devices and /variables endpoints and as many API tokens as you need.

Reliable schedules

Schedules have been rebuilt to run reliably as often as every minute on the Ultimate plan.

New plans

Free, Hobby and Ultimate. Existing v2 plans carry over as Legacy plans and keep working.

Media Library

We're adding our own library of audio sound effects and videos for use in your Flows and automations.

Ambient Videos and Soundscapes for Halloween

A selection of Halloween-themed ambient videos and soundscapes to help your Halloween home decor come alive.

Media Library shortcuts

Access your Media files more easily from within Flows and the API Playground using the Media Library shortcut.

Echo Dot with Clock character display

Set the display on your "Echo Dot with Clock" via an API call or via Flows.

Announcement text on Echo Shows

When creating an announcement within Flows, you can now display the announcement text on a screen-enabled Alexa device.

no_bg parameter

You can now remove the green monkey background from Echo Show announcements, either within Flows or using the no_bg parameter in API calls.

Meet Vomo!

Vomo is our new company mascot. Say hello.

New Flow actions

• Web Requests — HTTP GET/POST to another URL from within Flows.
• Flow Triggers — trigger other Flows from within a Flow (parent/child).
• Variable Set — set the value of a variable within a Flow.
• Conditions — IF/ELSE logic based on a variable value.

Variables

Create a variable and set its value via API, Flow or the console. Use it inside announcement text with curly brackets (e.g. "hello {FIRST_NAME}") or as the input to a Condition.

Webhooks

Send HTTP requests to a unique webhook URL that triggers an action. The payload is saved to a variable so you can reference it in announcements, routine triggers or Flows.

A new website

Quicker, slicker and showing off our new branding. This will be the central location for helpful guides, tutorials and documentation.

A new plan

• Basic — our free plan is now even better.
• PRO — deprecated. Existing PRO subscribers keep their plan and now have access to Flows and basic apps.
• Premium — full access to all features for a low monthly price.

Flows

A powerful new feature. Stack Actions in sequence: announcements, videos, audio, routine triggers and more.

APIs v2

New endpoints, renamed parameters, simplified authentication (one "token" parameter). See the docs for details.

Schedules

Trigger Flows on a schedule — hourly, daily, at specific times, etc. Premium plan only.

Media uploads

Upload personal files to Voice Monkey and get a URL you can use in your projects. Premium plan only.