Date Posted: April 7, 2000
Overview
What is VoiceXML for DirectTalk?
This technology has graduated.
First, VoiceXML for DirectTalk became IBM WebSphere Voice Server for DirectTalk, a product that provides support for interactive voice response (IVR) applications written in VoiceXML in order to run on DirectTalk for AIX. Now, VoiceXML for DirectTalk is included in WebSphere Voice Response (WVR).For development of VoiceXML applications for DirectTalk, use of the WebSphere Voice Toolkit is recommended.
About the technology author(s)
David S. Renshaw is an architect/designer in the IBM Voice Systems group at the IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley Park, Winchester, UK. He joined IBM in 1984 after working for several years as a systems programmer for engineering companies in the UK. While with IBM, Mr. Renshaw has worked in a number of areas, including transaction-processing systems (CICS), advanced text editors, object-oriented languages (ObjectREXX), and computer conferencing and collaboration systems. Before joining the Voice Systems group, he worked for the IBM Center for Java Technology and contributed to the JavaBeans specification. Outside of work, Mr. Renshaw is a fanatical brass band enthusiast and plays cornet with one of the leading brass bands in the UK, South West Trains Woodfalls Band.
