Encoding of Alexa Devices special characters

[sarachoagustin]

The problem

When trying to send a notification to an Echo Show device with an special character, the TTS mispronounce it.
action: notify.send_message data: message: Finalizó el lavado target: entity_id: notify.echo_show_casa_hablar

Looking at the Alexa text history it shows the following:
"Finalizó el lavado"

Maybe the encoding not support special characters?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2025.6.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Alexa Devices

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa_devices

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

action: notify.send_message
data:
  message: Finalizó el lavado
target:
  entity_id: notify.echo_show_casa_hablar

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Additional information

No response

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[chemelli74]

Thx for reporting.

Please update to 2025.6.1 that should fix this issue.

[sarachoagustin]

Updating to 2025.6.1 fix the problem, Thanks!