I set up a scene on my Vera Plus controller so that when a specific switch was turned on, a TTS notification was sent to an app I had installed on an old android phone. The phone was placed next to an Echo. When the switch was turned on, the phone said aloud:"Echo, play WCCO", and the Echo did. In principle, this should work as the OP would like, but as I don't have a smartthings hub I'm not sure.