gravity voice - Respond with i2c commands or variables/numbers

Is there a way to not have the module respond with voice, but rather send commands via i2c as numbers or words?
example… in case of a robot… 
wake word “hey robot”
robot responds with a command over i2c as a number of value “listening”

then you can give it a command… it responds with another number of value so you can call other functions on the arduino to make decisions from.