Composing an ivr with a visual tool and rendering it into something serialized that can be understood by many
things is a good idea but every time someone makes a go at an open standard they don't present it with wide open
and free tools to make and use it which always ends up ruining everything.

I can't find the free composer for vxml docs now... maybe they changed their mind.

I set out to make vxml for asterisk in 2004, at the time the only lib was openvxi and it was very hard to build.
I got so sick of trying to build it that spidermonkey caught my eye "Hey, the xml is just turned into js code anyway!"
So i thought i'd cut out the middleman and I wrote res_js for asterisk.

They promptly wrote AEL and had no interest in the idea so it still sits in a tarball somewhere alone in the dark =D


I ported the same idea to FS when the time came and thus mod_spidermonkey.

I'm not sure i like how CCML uses XML like a language but i have not dove into it too deeply.
but <if> tags? That scares me.

I'm glad at least there is a discussion on this, maybe it would make a good cluecon talk this year.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> wrote:
mszlazak wrote:
> 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.
>
Its interesting how the VoiceXML pushers have been able to create the
air in some circles that VoiceXML is the norm for IVR creation. Its
actually pretty hard to find people who have ever used it.

I think voiceXML has one big thing going for it - nothing else for IVR
building has been standardised. Apart from that its really clunky. Only
the most trivial examples look even moderately clean and readable.

Steve


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