Voice Application Development Introduction To VoiceXML

This article offers a concise overview of the origins of and applications for voice markup languages. VoiceXML coding is introduced by way of preparing the reader for more VoiceXML tutorials to follow in the near future. Includes links to a voice browser, voice portals and additional related resources.

This tutorial teaches you how to develop Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) based applications. The course is intended for developers and technical managers who want to get an overview and understanding of VoiceXML application development.

Suppose we want to create an application for ordering a pizza. The first thing you might want to find out from a caller would be their phone number. How would this be done?

This tutorial gives an overview of how VoiceXML applications work and how to write VoiceXML documents.

VoiceXML is the HTML of the voice web, the open standard markup language for voice applications. VoiceXML harnesses the massive web infrastructure developed for HTML to make it easy to create and deploy voice applications.

VoiceXML 2.0 is an extensible markup language (XML) for the creation of automated speech recognition (ASR) and interactive voice response (IVR) applications. Based on the XML tag/attribute format, the VoiceXML syntax involves enclosing instructions (items) within a tag structure in the following manner:

The following is a list of basic tutorials that will help you get started programming VoiceXML applications.

VoiceXML is the HTML of the voice web, the open standard markup language for voice applications. VoiceXML harnesses the massive web infrastructure developed for HTML to make it easy to create and deploy voice applications. Like HTML, VoiceXML has opened up huge business opportunities: the Economist even says that "VoiceXML could yet rescue telecoms carriers from their folly in stringing so much optical fibre around the world."