[Communicator-user] Communicator and VoiceXML?

[Peter G. <go...@fo...>]

Hi all -

the whole voice community talks about VoiceXML nowadays.

As somebody already also pointed out, I see the Communicator and VoiceXML as 
being complementary: Though in principle it is possible to define a voice 
dialog with the Communicators' hub scripting language, you will typically 
want something more focussed for that task. (That's why the CSLR travel demo 
has a "dialog server".) VoiceXML seems to be predestinated for defining a 
dialog. On the other hand, one major strength of the Communicator lies in 
efficiently and flexibly connecting different components together.

Another thing is politics: People, who give you money, tend to ask for 
buzzwords, that they have recently read in large letters on some magazine 
cover. So I am convinced that it would be advantageous for the Communicator 
to be describable as a "superset" of VoiceXML.

So, I think it would be very nice to have a kind of VoiceXML based dialog 
server for the Communicator. (Actually, I found a presentation from Sam from 
October 2000, where he suggested such a thing.)

Does anybody work on that or plans to do so? 

Regards -

Peter

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