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Voice Gene

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2
1.0 Introduction - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
2.0 Analysis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
2.1 Reusability of code and developers' skills - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
2.2 Suitability for VoiceGenie's platform - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6
2.3 Style - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6
2.4 Industry Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7
3.0 Conclusions - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8
4.0 Recommendations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9
References - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10

Appendix A – An Example of an X+V Application - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11
Appendix B – An Example of a SALT Application - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13


Executive Summary
VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., a VoiceXML Gateway solutions company, is striving to support multimodal applications. The company must decide which multimodal markup language to support. The markup languages being considered are:
- X+V (XHTML+Voice), a combination of XHTML and VoiceXML
- SALT (Speech Application Language Tag), an extension of HTML/XHTML using SALT tags.
- VoiceGenie's method, a set of HTML pages and a set of VoiceXML pages synchronized by sending messages to each other.
This report assumes that an X+V or SALT browser is to be implemented by VoiceGenie. The benefits and drawbacks of these markup languages are analyzed using the following criteria:
• Reusability of code and developers' skills: Both Web and voice application developers would find X+V easy to learn. An existing Web application can be reused if it should be converted to SALT. Both Web and voice...