Speaking of Standards

Recently we came across a great series of articles at InformIT on the subject of VoiceXML. Written by Frank Coyne, they cover the range from an introduction to VoiceXML up through using VoiceXML with social networks. Nicely, the author mentions Voxeo and talks about how the exercises he lays out can be done using a free developer account on our evolution.voxeo.com site. Here are the articles:

• “An Introduction to VoiceXML“
• “Part 2: Working with Forms“
• “Part 3: VoiceXML Grammars“
• “Part 4: Grammars, Scope and Event Handlers“
• “Part 5: VoiceXML meets Web 2.0“

You can also get a list of all the articles as well as a blog entry from Frank Coyne back in August titled “Mashin’ Up with Voice XML“. To probably no one’s surprise, I was personally most intrigued by Part 5. Having done a ton of work with XSLT stylesheets in the past I enjoyed the part about creating dynamic Voice XML using XSLT stylesheets to generate the VoiceXML:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1017851&seqNum=6

Linking VoiceXML to triggering Gmail delivery is also quite cool:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1017851&seqNum=8

As I am personally just coming up to speed on VoiceXML, I’ll be working through many of these tutorials in my own evolution account. (Since accounts are free, you are welcome to sign up and check it out yourself.)

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