An introduction to developing VoiceXML applications.

VoiceXML and Dialog Systems Resources. You'll also find a very comprehensive list of categorised links at Ken Rehor's World of VoiceXML.

An introduction to the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML).

This article summarizes the key features of the specification and the application of the specification to VoiceXML application development.

In this monthly column, an industry expert will answer common questions about VoiceXML and related technologies. Readers are encouraged to submit questions about VoiceXML, including development, voice-user interface design, and speech technology in general, or how VoiceXML is being used commercially in the marketplace. If you have a question about VoiceXML, e-mail it to speak.and.listen@voicexmlreview.org and be sure to read future issues of VoiceXML Review for the answer.

Voice Application Development Introduction To VoiceXML

The VoiceXML Forum and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday reached an agreement under which the W3C will take the lead in technical development while the VoiceXML Forum focuses on interoperability.

"SALT, [in contrast to VXML], is designed for use with multimodal applications, in which you provide input via voice commands and the resulting output is graphical—or vice versa. Such back-end apps are accessed not through standard telephones but through networked mobile devices, including PDAs and Internet-enabled cell phones."

Highlighting the continuing evolution of the telephony market will be a new standard to ease the development of voice response-based interactions on the Web. Advances in communications servers and speech-telephony software will also be demonstrated.

In this article, we will give background as to why HP Bluestone chose this strategy, and provide the reader with all the information necessary to download and explore the functionality of these technologies.

The VoiceXML architectural model specifies a partitioning of application hosting, and application rendering (figure 1). Specifically, the application is served from a Web Server and is typically created dynamically within the framework of an Application Server or equivalent. The VoiceXML Interpreter renders the resultant VoiceXML document, transmitted across a network by HTTP, into a series of instructions interpreted by the Implementation Platform. Implied in this model is a geographical distribution of the application hosting environment and the VoiceXML platform and thus the incursion of network latencies.

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 article deals with the development environment that Loquendo has developed and packaged to support companies developing VoiceXML applications for Loquendo's multi-lingual VoiceXML based voice platforms and technologies.

If you’re thinking about investing in proprietary technology to voice-enable your web site or your IVR system, think again. If you don’t invest in VoiceXML today, chances are you will be porting your investment to VoiceXML in the foreseeable future.

Building VoiceXML applications. A voice application is a collection of one or more VoiceXML documents. A VoiceXML document is composed of one or more dialogs. The remainder of this document provides some simple examples of a voice application and provides details about the application root document

“Web extension or IVR replacement?” While certainly not as profound as the metaphysical “to be or not to be” query posed by Shakespeare’s Danish prince, the question holds great weight for members of the voice commerce and multimodal device community going to market with the latest ASR, TTS and Natural Language solutions.

In this monthly column, an industry expert will answer common questions about VoiceXML and related technologies.

With the launch of the VoiceXML Forum in March of 1999, and the release of the VoiceXML 1.0 specification in March 2000, there has been a surge of activity in the speech and telephony industry around the VoiceXML concept, products and services.

Understanding the network will give you a better feeling for constraints on your voice applications and help you develop better-behaved VoiceXML. This article describes the interaction of high-level network architecture and VoiceXML.

Standards-based VoiceXML speech development will drive next gen wireless devices By Gene Eagle, Senior Solutions Architect, Consulting