title: Is there a way to send voice to text as a payload from Alexa to Node-Red?
body: <p>I suspect I'm just not googling the right thing but,</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to get Alexa to send variable text through to Node-Red as a payload.</p>
  
  <p>the end goal will look something like this:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>"alexa, open firefox" </li>
  <li>"alexa, search for [search query]"</li>
  <li>Node-red runs python with payload from Alexa</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>or more generically</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>"alexa, [command]"</li>
  <li>"alexa, [arguments for command]"</li>
  <li>Node-Red runs python with payload [arguments for command]</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I can do step 1 and 3, but I'm not sure how to get Alexa to pass the raw text for interpretation by python on my PC. This is just a basic example and maybe not practical, the main point is to be able to say anything and have that [anything] arrive in python.</p>