Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library

Note: Sign in to the developer console to build or publish your skill.

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Sound Library provides a set of sound effects that you can use within your skill.

Use the ASK Sound Library in your skill

To use these sounds in your skill, use either Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) or Alexa Presentation Language (APL) for audio.

Play the sound with SSML

Use the <audio> tag to play the sound effect. Enclose your SSML response within the <speak> tag.

The following example shows how to include a sound effect in the SSML with the audio tag.

Important: You can't use the Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library sounds in a progressive response

Play sounds with APL for audio

If you use Alexa Presentation Language (APL) for audio, you can use the Audio component to play sounds from the sound library. Set the source property to the URI for the sound you want to play.

You can also use the sound library within SSML in the Speech component.

For more about APL for audio, see APL for Audio Reference.

Available sounds

The following table contains all the available sound effects in the Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library, including the audio and the SSML code for each one. After you select a row in the table, you can listen to the audio for that sound effect and copy the SSML code. You can search the table or sort it by any of the available columns.

Category	Name	Duration

Important: You can use these sound files within a text-to-speech response that your skill sends to Alexa. You can also test the SSML for these sounds in the Test page in the Alexa Skills Kit developer console. You can't download the files or access them directly in a web browser.

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Last updated: Nov 28, 2023