How do I suppress standard Alexa responses to hear custom responses

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I use the Alexa nodes to query my home automation system and it works quite well, but in this case no matter how I word the question I always get some standard response rather than just my custom response.
In my flow, everything which has Alexa, what is... gets routed to a switch, then looks for contains...
In this case, its looking for car status. I just want it to tell me how much my car has been charged. But I have tried everything I can imagine, like asking car solar charge, EV6 charge, car status and lots more. I always get a standard response from Alexa. That I want to suppress, so it only speaks my text.
So the problem isnt really in the flow (Otherwise I would have pasted it here)

This is what the debug shows, maybe that makes it clearer

sync : msg : Object

object

payload: object

data: object

conversionDetails: object

deviceType: "x"

creationTimestamp: 1692698096426

deviceSerialNumber: "x"

name: "Study"

description: object

alexaResponse: "Mike, Currently, traffic on your commute looks quite clear. The fastest route takes about 1 hour 12 minutes via A127 and A13."

destinationUserId: "x"

text: "the car has been charged 0 kilowatt hours"

device: "Study"

So, I want her to speak the text, but not the alexaResponse

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You could use the Q&A skill, explained here -

Create a unique response for each of your "questions" eg checking car charge Then watch for "checking car charge" to trigger your text to speak the result.

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That solution will not work in my case. I am constructing a custom answer with a global variable in node red. So the answer I want is "the car has been charged" + my global variable + "kilowatt hours". I could not do that in the Alexa skill. Next problem I could only have 7 custom responses, I use more already.
What I am looking for is a blueprint for suppressing the alexaResponse in selected cases.

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I use the Q&A Blueprint for my room-aware commands with Alexa. Don't try to put your variable response within the blueprint, just put a simple response like "ok". Then use Node Red to generate your custom response.

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