Slowing time to key prompt

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I am a beginner with Unity 3D with minimal experience. I have a game concept and I am trying to figure out the ways to make my ideas work.

What I will be doing:

In this situation I would to have the player character run towards a railing in order to vault over it. A particular key being pressed will result in vaulting the railing. When the player character reaches a certain close distance from the railing I want time to slow (maybe even a noise or something as indication) for a second or so for the user to hit the button corresponding with the vaulting action.

What I would like to know: How, if not to much of a hassle, would one get "time to slow down" for the button prompting and return to normal speed and lead into the resulting animation for the vaulting of the railing?

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If you want the whole game time to slow down, set Time.timeScale to whatever speed you like(0-99.99). Default is 1.

If you just want, let's say, the character to slow down, you'll have to make your own speedFactor= ~1; variable then multiply any time-related movement by your private speedFactor.