Package name
Voice XML Interpreter
Package identifier
AVvoicxml
Package type
Optional
Description
The AVvoicxml package provides the Avaya Voice Browser (AVB) software that supports the VoiceXML 2.0 specification, dated April 24, 2002, with a few exceptions, which are listed in Unsupported features of the VoiceXML 2.0 specification for the AVvoicxml package.The AVvoicxml package is backward compatible with existing R1.2.1 VoiceXML applications.
The 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.
Note:
The AVvoicxml package is not used as the VoiceXML interpreter for Release2.0. It is used for releases of IR before R1.3
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 Voice XML Interpreter 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.