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@tim-s and @meyerdenney, yea I wish they didn't do that. Alexa's doing it now too, so I suspect there's some legal reason for it. I'm guessing it's to let users know this is a third party, not a Google service you're about to hear from.

I was research this and came across this pretty thorough blog post.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/10/ultimate-guide-google-home-tips-tricks-understanding-making-assistant-speaker/

I learned a few things from it, including that other people are annoyed by the multiple voices issue too:

"Assistant apps talk back to you in a different voice than the one you're used to hearing from your Google Home. It's jarring at first, but Home will respond with, "Alright, getting X," and another voice will come up and tell you what this particular app/service can do and will continue answering you until you're done with it and want to go back to the regular Home voice and commands..."

I also found this reddit post from a year ago that says Google Assistant will stop saying, "Alright, getting X" after you've been using X for a while. Unfortunately that hasn't been my experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/80efhh/google_home_stopping_talkative_introduction_to/

I also noticed Alexa doesn't always say "Ok here's TRIGGERcmd, ..." For instance if I say, "Alexa, run calculator" she doesn't, so maybe if the command is short enough she doesn't say it.

Just tried it out and it works! Thanks!!

@meyerdenney, the only way I know how to that is to setup your TRIGGERcmd command as a SmartThings switch because your SmartThings devices show up under Smart Home in Alexa routines.

EDIT: @meyerdenney, I'm looking into creating a TRIGGERcmd Alexa Smart Home skill. That should solve this. I'm planning to make each command act like an on/off switch, just like the SmartThings integration.

EDIT 2: I finished the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Alexa skill and it's awesome. Alexa can recognize your words much better with this TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill because she knows the limited set of trigger names.

@meyerdenney, I use an Alexa "Routine" to open my garage with "Alexa, open sesame", but it depends on my SmartThings system. That works because routines work with Smart Home systems.

Otherwise, I don't know of a way to do that with Alexa. I wish Alexa had something like Google Assistant's "routines" (they used to be called "shortcuts").

I like Xander's idea if you have Alexa. If you have a Google Home, you can setup a shortcut and say anything you want, like:

You just have to setup a shortcut called foobar for "ask TRIGGERcmd to run foo on bar" (for example).

Good idea @tim-s.