After 15 years as the premier trade organization for voice dialogue technology, The VoiceXML Forum is pleased to announce it has succeeded in establishing VoiceXML as the standard application language for voice dialogues, now widely adopted across the industry.

Tutorials: a variety of technical articles and presentations for beginning and experienced VoiceXML developers. VoiceXML Review: archives of the VoiceXML Forum’s online publication. Each issue includes technical articles, interviews with industry experts, news, tutorials, and updates from the VoiceXML Forum committees.

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<if>, <else>, & <elseif> are the three elements utilized for conditional statements in VoiceXML. Each element should utilize a cond attribute specifying an ECMAScript boolean condition.

Scope defines the order of precedence for tags used in VoiceXML depending on where they are placed within an application. Variables, links, grammars, and event handling all utilize scope.

Let’s create a simple VoiceXML application whose only purpose is to play a single prompt to a caller. To do this, we must first gain a basic understanding of the use of form items.

The VoiceXML Forum is the industry’s leading VoiceXML certification authority. The VoiceXML Platform Certification Program certifies that the fundamental speech, Web, and telephony standards required by the VoiceXML specification have been correctly implemented by …

We will use the <block> tag to enclose a simple text-to-speech (TTS) prompt to play to the user. Fill in the desired field below and then click on [next] to generate your VoiceXML document. You may alternatively generate a prompt from a pre-recorded …

Industry specifications created by standards organizations, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), are critical to the VoiceXML Forum’s work.

Telephone services like personal voice dialing, one-number “find-me” services, voice mail management, and teleconferencing can easily be voice-enabled through VoiceXML.