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To take advantage of this behavior, you should use Announcement and Data Announcer applets early in your interaction plan. This will give time for other applets to process in the background. If appropriate, you can reorder interaction plans to play existing announcement applets earlier. Or, you can use a new Announcement or Data Announcer applet to fill the silence.
The following example doesn't make use of asynchronous announcements. After the caller presses 1, there will be a period of silence while the Data Connector applets are processed. When the Data Connector applets have been processed, the Data Announcer applet will play.
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