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The Dialog Designer documentation is for those who need to:

• Install and configure Dialog Designer for their own use or the use of others

• Use Dialog Designer to design and create speech applications for:

• Avaya Interactive Response (IR), Release 3 (or later)

• Avaya Voice Portal 4 (or later)

These users include, among others:

• Customers who want to create their own speech applications

• Avaya business partners and independent service vendors who create speech applications for Avaya customers

The primary users of Dialog Designer are likely to be highly knowledgeable and skilled in telecommunications and Internet technologies. Therefore, this documentation does not cover many topics related to those areas. Instead, Avaya assumes that those using Dialog Designer are already proficient and knowledgeable in the following areas:

• The operating systems in which they will be developing and deploying Dialog Designer applications

• Computer networking concepts and technologies

• Telecommunications concepts and technologies, including switches and gateways

• Basic programming logic and practice

Dialog Designer is built on several existing technologies and tools. Because of this, Avaya recommends that Dialog Designer users familiarize themselves with the following technologies, if they are not already familiar with the technologies:

• Eclipse open-source software

• Java servlet technology

• Servlet engine technologies

• Speech recognition and synthesis technologies

• Database administration

• Web service technologies

For more information about and additional resources for these technologies, see Resources.

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