Making a Sound
Ultimately, the goal of producing an APL-A template is to produce some speech or sounds that will be returned as part a skill response. For this purpose, APL-A offers two fundamental components that make sound—Speech and Audio—and a third component that intentionally doesn’t make any sound. These components are:
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Speech—Causes Alexa to speak some given text or SSML
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Audio—Plays an sound effect from Alexa’s soundbank or a custom MP3 from a given URL
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Silence—Pauses silently for a given duration of time
The Speech component works much like the speak() method on the response builder in a request handler, accepting either plain-text for Alexa to speak or SSML to customize how Alexa speaks. The Audio component, on the other hand, plays ...
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