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SSML tags are not resolved in skill response #674

Closed laurenschneider closed 3 years ago

laurenschneider commented 3 years ago

I'm submitting a...

[ ] Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release) [X ] Bug report
[ ] Performance issue [ ] Feature request [ ] Documentation issue or request [ ] Other... Please describe: ResponseBuilder.speak() does not process SSML tags.

Expected Behavior

When returning a response that includes SSML tags, the spoken output applies those tags.

return handlerInput.responseBuilder .speak(Alexa.escapeXmlCharacters('Hello \ fellow Alexa developers')) .getResponse();

Hello fellow Alexa developers

Current Behavior

The SSML tags are spoken as part of the response string

return handlerInput.responseBuilder .speak(Alexa.escapeXmlCharacters('Hello \ fellow Alexa developers')) .getResponse();

The response spoken by Alexa says the tags out loud as though they were part of the response. Hello <break time='1s'/> fellow Alexa developers

Your Environment

ASK SDK for Node.js used: 2.9.0 ASK SDK CORE: 2.9.0 ASK SDK MODEL: 1.34.1

ShenChen93 commented 3 years ago

Hi @laurenschneider Thanks for using our SDK ! The util function escapeXmlCharacters is used to escapse XML Characters. For normal SSML string, you could directly pass it to the speak function as it will automatically determine if it's a plainText or SSML string. Thus you could fix your code by follwing change:

return handlerInput.responseBuilder
.speak(`Hello <break time='1s'/> fellow Alexa developers`)
.getResponse();

Let me know if it fix your issue :)

Thanks, Shen