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Voice Browser

Working in the same manner as a standard browser, a voice browser allows the user to interact with Web pages using speech. Instead of using HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
, like a standard browser, a voice browser uses VXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language See XML.

(language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web.

http://w3.org/XML/.
, a standard of the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C) and allows users to speak and listen to Web applications. To deliver information to a caller, a voice browser uses text-to-speech technology to translate the text of Web applications into speech, and "speak" content back to the caller. Many voice browsers also use CCXML CCXML Call Control Extensible Markup Language
CCXML Call Control Xml Interpreter
, or Call Control Extensible Markup Language Call Control eXtensible Markup Language (CCXML) is an XML standard designed to provide telephony support to VoiceXML. Its current status is a W3C Working Draft, adopted 19 January 2007. . CCXML, another standard of the W3C, is an adjunct language created to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML system by providing telephony call control support.
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Title Annotation:Speech-World News; what is a voice browser
Publication:Customer Interaction Solutions
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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