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VoiceXML Interpreter package

Package name

Voice XML Interpreter

Package identifier

AVvoicxml

Package type

Optional

Description

The VoiceXML Interpreter package installs the Avaya Voice Browser (AVB) software. AVB is a collection of proprietary and third-party software components that together provide the ability to request, parse, and interpret VoiceXML documents so that the Avaya IR platform can provide IVR functions such as prompt playback and tone processing.

Software components in the package are described in the following table:

Software component

Description

Comments

Avaya VoiceXML Interpreter (Avaya VXI)

A version of the SpeechWorks OpenVXI 2.0 system specifically customized by Avaya to be functionally integrated with the Avaya IR system. The VoiceXML Interpreter transcodes UTF-16 data to UTF-8 data so that the UTF-8 data is available to the NLSR proxy.

More information on OpenVXI 2.0 is available on the SpeechWorks Web site

Xerces C++ 1.6.0

An open-source XML parser developed and distributed by the Apache Software Foundation

More information on Xerces is available on the Apache Software Foundation Web site

SpiderMonkey

An open-source ECMA-compliant Javascript interpreter developed and distributed by The Mozilla Organization

More information is available on the Mozilla Organization Web site

libwww

An open-source library of Web access functions developed and distributed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This library is used to fetch VoiceXML pages from Web servers using the http protocol.

More information on libwww is available on the W3C Web site

openSSL version 5.0.18

OpenSLL provides an open source toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This is used by VoiceXML through libwww to provide SSL functionality to VoiceXML applications.

More information is available at the OpenSSL Project website.

The Avaya VXI is the heart of the voice browser. It provides the functionality for parsing and processing the VoiceXML documents. It also provides the interface with the Avaya IR platform and the Web.

See Also

VoiceXML feature

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