[Freeswitch-users] VoiceXML

[David Knell]

Just sticking 'voice' in front of something doesn't automatically make
it a good tool for developing voice applications - there's more
marketing here than anything else.  And it's not like adding extensions
to an existing language to provide IVR control is anything new: it's
exactly what you get if you develop for FS in Javascript, Lua or any of
its other supported languages.

>From my point of view, as a programmer, VoiceXML is the wrong idiom for
development of IVR/telephony services; a procedural language works just
fine.  I suspect that I'm not alone, and I further suspect that that's
why there's no real push to get VoiceXML supported.

--Dave

> If you don't like vxml then here is a post on voicePHP
> 
> http://www.speechtechblog.com/2009/04/22/voicexml-to-go-down-in-the-third-says-voicephp
> 
> It's from a vendor but there might be some good ideas to get from what they
> are doing.
> 
> FreeSWITCH needs demand to get vxml and it's not there yet. For now, it
> looks like the FS community is waiting for demand instead of trying to
> create it. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David Knell wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:35 -0400, mszlazak at aol.com wrote:
> >> Great Idea. 
> >> Try setting up the exact same dialogue with say Voxeo's VoiceXML
> >> system and then with Javascript/Lua and pocketsphinx. It's an order of
> >> magnitude faster with VoiceXML.
> > 
> > Out of interest, is that using some RAD tool or coding directly in 
> > VoiceXML?  I ask because VoiceXML strikes me as being a bastard
> > abomination of the highest order, whose sole saving grace is that
> > it's a standardised bastard abomination.
> > 
> > Or is Pocketsphinx the problem?
> > 
> > Cheers --
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
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