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vandy
vandy

Reputation: 21

Adding Wait Message in my Amazon ALexa skill

I am developing an Alexa service which connects to an external service. In order to get the response, it takes around 9-10 seconds. Is there a way to add a message in Alexa while Lambda function is processing the request. Something like - "hang on a second. I am retrieving the results"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 547

Answers (2)

Ussama Zubair
Ussama Zubair

Reputation: 1218

Yes, It is possible through Progressive Response Api which targets exactly your use case.

According to docs:

Your skill can send progressive responses to keep the user engaged while your skill prepares a full response to the user's request. A progressive response is interstitial SSML content (including text-to-speech and short audio) that Alexa plays while waiting for your full skill response.

Upvotes: 0

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 17892

You could get Alexa to say that, but then the user would have to say something to your skill for control to return to you.

The only way I can think of to do what you want is to use the audio player to stream a response to the user, so you can be formulating the end of the response while the user is listening to the beginning of it.

Upvotes: 4

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