How to add a break/pause of few seconds to Google assistant response

Question

While sending a response to the user how do I add a pause/break of few seconds? Here is an example:

Response text: "The answer to the question is  < Pause-For-2-Seconds > answer"

I tried the <break = "2s" /> and that do not work for me.

Answer 1

You have to use SSML on your answer, to do that just wrap what your response is with <speak> tag then add another tag <break time="2s"/>, like this:

<speak>The answer to the question is <break time="2s"/> answer</speak>

For a more complete information on SSML check this.