About this Experiment
This IVR (Interactive Voice Response) applications presents the navigation menu of the site (Artificial Life and other Experiments) in VoiceXML (see What is VoiceXML below), enabling to grasp the structure and content of the web site by using the phone.
IVR Usage Instructions
- Call (+1) 416-736-6779 (US phone of VoiceGenie platform)
- When asked for extension, enter 159100.
- Follow the system prompts by pressing the appropriate keys of your phone.
- At any point you can use the following universal keys:
- Press the * (star) key to repeat current prompt
- press the 7 key for the previous menu
- Press the 8 key for the top menu
- Press the 9 key to exit.
- You can always press the 0 key or the # (pound) key for help instructions.
What is VoiceXML?
Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) is an XML-based markup language for creating distributed voice applications, much as HTML is a markup language for creating distributed visual applications. VoiceXML provides a standard interface between voice and the Internet. VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed-initiative conversations.
About VoiceGenie Developer
The VoiceGenie Developer Workshop is a group of tools, documentation, and other resources that allows anyone to design, develop and test his own voice-enabled, interactive phone application for free.
About TTS (Text to Speech)
All the texts you hear in this experiment are produced by a TTS (Text-to-Speech) engine. If you prefer to have the dialog with a woman, you can key 159101 when asked to enter the extension. Exactly the same texts will be spoken by a female voice.
About the XML file
The XML file represents the web site navigation menu. The same structure governs both the site's home page visual menu and the IVR menu in this experiment. In Microsoft Internet Explorer the displayed XML file is interactive. In Netscape a simple text file is displayed.
The Experiment