VoiceXML for Slavic languages application development

Abstract

Since Croatian language, as well as other Slavic languages, is essentially very different from English, we are in the need of developing language specific tools and systems. In this paper we point out the benefits that speech applications have and describe our future platform. Furthermore, we create domain-specific dialogues using VoiceXML. VoiceXML is a language for creating voice user interfaces. We opted for VoiceXML because it simplifies application development by permitting developers to use familiar Web techniques, tools and infrastructure.