Agenda
System Overview Development platform Template-based Application Framework Design Process Deployment platforms
IDE tools IBM Voice Server and Apache Forum
Apache Web Server PHP
mySQL PHP
PHP
PHP
IBM Voice Server
Development Platform
Open source Apache Forum Products on Windows NT 4.0
Web Server - Apache HTTP Server Database - mySQL Server Side Scripting - PHP VoiceXML server - IBM ViaVoice SDK
Design Objectives
Distinct layers architecture (presentation layer, business logic layer and data access layer)
Scalable architecture based on J2EE (enable vendor independence, RAD workflow process)
Abstract data access layer (allow easy plug-n-play for new data access channels)
Easy of use and user-friendly (separate designer and programmer skill sets)
Abstract execution environment (allow multiple-content to multiple devices)
Template-based Application Framework
Framework contains 6 modules Resources - resource bundles, config files Prompts - pre- recorded wave files, text for prompts
Grammars - grammars files Templates - dialog designs
Includes - sources code, common
Common - XML DTD, DB abstract, generic codes
Application Framework Design
Classic Software Design Paradigm Model - manages the behavior View, responds to request,
and instruction to change state View - manages the outputs Controller - Interpret input from user, command the model
and change the view as appropriate
Model
Controller View
Application Framework mapping
(BusinessLogic )
phptem plate
files
d ia log s
P rom p ts
G ram m a r
C on fig
In clu d es
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Controller ViewModel
Implementation Process Dialog Design
– Pre-recorded or TTS Build VXML component
– speech objects
– define grammar Map dialog with contents from DB tables
– build API for data retrieval
Apply Business Logic– map dynamic and static contents
Unit testing via browser using PHP– call up each component through URL
System Integration in VXML platforms
Dialog DesignBasic Call Flow Control
A Voice application is a collection of dialogs. The interpreter navigates from dialog to dialog in
document source order. A dialog is referenced via the value of its id attribute. The id of each dialog within a document should be unique. The URL consists of a hash symbol (#) followed by the
value of the <form> element’s id attribute. Outside the document, the URL consists of the absolute
or relative HTTP path to the document
Basic Call Flow Control example
<!-- main.vxml -->
<vxml>
<form id=“main”>
<block>
<goto next=“action1.vxml#say_hello”/>
</block>
</form>
<form id=“goodbye”>
<block>
<audio>Good Bye</audio>
<goto next=“_home”/>
</block>
</form>
</vxml>
<!-- action1.vxml -->
<vxml>
<form id=“say_hello”>
<block>
<audio> Welcome to Pace U</audio>
<goto next=“#do_next”/>
</block>
</form>
<form id=“do_next”>
<block>
<goto next=“main.vxml#goodbye”/>
</block>
</form>
</vxml>
Dialog DesignCompare Audio and TTS
Pre-recorder Audio Text-To-Speech
Resource Large Small
Vocabulary Small Unlimited
Intelligibility High Highly Intelligible
Voice Quality Natural
Pleasant Mechanical
Voice Customizability Must re-record Unlimited
Cost Expensive Negligible
Flexibility None Unlimited vocabulary
Build VXML componentsA simple dialog template
<form id="login">
<field name="userid">
{USERID_GRAMMAR}
{USERID_PROMPT}
<noinput count="1">
<reprompt/>
</noinput>
</field>
<field name="password">
{USERPWD_GRAMMAR}
{USERPWD_PROMPT}
<filled>
<assign name="application.userid" expr="userid"/>
<submit next=”{GOTO_PAGE}" namelist=”{GOTO_PARAMETERS}"/>
</filled>
</field>
</form>
Build VXML componentsDefine Prompts and Grammars
<?php
$USERID_PROMPT='<prompt><audio>Please say your six digit user ID.</audio></prompt>';
$USERPWD_PROMPT='<prompt><audio>Say your four digit password.</audio></prompt>';
$MENU_USERID_INVALID_PROMPT='<prompt><audio>That user ID does not exist. Login again.</audio></prompt>';
$MENU_USERPWD_INVALID_PROMPT='<prompt><audio>That password is incorrect. Login again.</audio></prompt>';
?>
Example of a prompt file for US_EN
Build VXML componentsDefine Grammars
<?php
$USERID_GRAMMAR='src=builtin:grammar/digits?length={USERID_LENGTH}"></grammar>’;
$USERPWD_GRAMMAR=src=builtin:grammar/digits?length={USERPWD_LENGTH}"></grammar>’;
?>
Integrate into Application Template Framework
<?php
include "includes/class.FastTemplate.php";
include "includes/common.php";
include "includes/functions.php";
include "includes/abstractdatabase.php";
# to have language specific prompts, and grammars
include (RESOURCES_DIR . "/login_" . LANGUAGE . ".php");
$db = new db();
$db->open(DATABASE, HOST, USER, PASSWORD);
# create a new query object
$q = new query($db);
Common
Include files
Configurations
Database Abstract
Apply Business Logic# any thing that you want to do at the beginning of the page common all pages.
pageStart();
# don't really need to declare as global since there are
# no functions using $tpl
global $tpl;
# initialize FastTemplace class
$tpl = new FastTemplate(TEMPLATE_DIR);
$tpl->define(array("main" => "main.tpl",
"login" => "login.tpl"));
$tpl->assign(array("USERID_LENGTH" => LOGIN_ID_LENGTH,
"USERPWD_LENGTH" => LOGIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH,
"USERID_PROMPT" => $USERID_PROMPT,
"USERPWD_PROMPT" => $USERPWD_PROMPT,
"LOGIN_GRAMMAR" => createLoginGrammar(LOGIN_ID_LENGTH),
"PASSWORD_GRAMMAR" => createPasswordGrammar(LOGIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH)));
template
mappings
Variables subsitution
Apply Business Logic cont.
# doing a search and replace here
# variable CONTENT will get the value of the list template after the search and replace
$tpl->parse("CONTENT", "login");
# variable MAIN will get the value of the main template
# NOTE how the CONTENT variable assigned in the previous instruction gets replaced in the template.
$tpl->parse("MAIN", "main");
#print out the last variable: MAIN
$tpl->FastPrint();
# any thing that you want to do at the end of the page common to
# all pages
pageEnd();
VoiceXML Application Tools BeVocal Café, BeVocal, Inc.
– http://café.bevocal.com
WebSphere Voice Server SDK, IBM Corp.– http://www.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ep_11.html
Mobile ADK, Motorola, Inc.– http://mix.motorola.com/audiences/developers/madk_intro_dev.asp
V-Builder, Nuances Communication– http://extranet.nuance.com/developer
Tellme Studio, Tellme Networks, Inc– http://studio.tellme.com
VoiceGenie Dev. Workshop– http://developer.voicegenie.com
voxeo community, voxeo Corporation– http://community.voxeo.com