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I am a complete novice to building Alexa skills.

I have managed to build and send a skill live, but now want to improve it.

I primarily want to change the way Alexa speaks my code... I don't understand how to implement SSML into my Node.js code...

This is part of my code...

"AMAZON.CancelIntent": function () {
    this.response.speak("Thank you for using The Bible Geek. If you enjoyed your learning experience, why not leave us a 5 star review and let us know if there are topics that you would like The Bible Geek to cover. Goodbye")
    this.emit(':responseReady');   },

I'd really like to be able to implement a pause such as <break time="3s"/>

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance

Daniel Grosvenor
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Using SSML Tags is really simple in your case you just need to add this break time tag <break time="3s"/> in the response where you need a pause of 3 seconds.

For example in your code snippet above you just need to do this:

(Note: use template string operator (``) rather than single ('') or double quotes (""))

 this.response.speak(`There is a three second pause here <break time="3s"/> then the speech continues.`)
 this.emit(':responseReady');
Ussama Zubair
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