Product Description

Engineer your way to excellence! This professional resource explains in full detail how to build VoiceXML-based applications using real-world programs you can adapt for your own projects. The book includes three full-scale, enterprise-level applications complete with all source code.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #473011 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-13
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 358 pages

From the Back Cover
Your Definitive Professional Resource

Develop real-world voice-based applications using this authoritative one-of-a-kind guide. Featuring in-depth coverage of both core and emerging topics within voice-enabled technology, this book explains everything from setting up a simple voice mail system to developing advanced multi-model voice applications using the newest Web telephony engine. You'll learn how to integrate VoiceXML with other key technologies such as ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, CCXML, and SALT. All examples are based on today's most current hardware. Containing project specifications, guidelines, deployment procedures--as well as actual case studies with all source code--this practical resource will change the way you develop next-generation voice-based applications.
*Design dialog flow and navigation architecture and learn guidelines for voice applications
*Manage content and identify target audience
*Learn VoiceXML document structure and execute multi-document-based applications
*Develop voice mail and voice banking systems using ASP and VoiceXML
*Identify the scope and role of grammars in VoiceXML 2.0
*Use JSP to interact with databases and write code for front-end dialogs
*Understand the benefits and components of the Microsoft Web telephony engine
*Write CCXML programs and integrate CCXML with VoiceXML applications
*Produce speech output and speech input in SALT

Customer Reviews

Cut the crap
This is a no crap book. I didnt need a tome that would tell me what i want. I know what i need to do i just needed a book that would help in the How To part. Some of the application discussed in this book are of commercial quality in their design and funtionality. the stuff on the voice command performace shows the author's experiance on the matter. I could have done with some more stuff on IP telephony but the application discussed here elaborates a design which is common more or less in a lot of IP telephony apps. Nothing really usefull though but you can realy take the concept and the code further as you please and gives you something to think about. The very presence of the IP telephony introductory chapter in the books kind of completes the book and the discussion. I wouldnt mind though if this book had a few more pages and completed many application that i though were on the verge on being turn key solutions.

Bark with little bite
While this is the only book I could find with direct reference to VoiceXML, ASP and SALT, it was a dissapointment. The title says VoiceXML 2.0, but the major examples are all given in 1.0 syntax. There are many errors and the formatting is poor. Finally, there is no discussion about mixed-initiative applications or natural language processing.