System and process for developing a voice application

摘要

A system for use in developing a voice application includes a dialog element selector for defining execution paths of the application by selecting dialog elements and adding the dialog elements to a tree structure. Each path through the tree structure represents one of the execution paths. The system also has a means for receiving user input generated by user interaction with the dialog element selector; means for processing the user input to define a voice application by selecting dialog elements representing components of the application, configuring properties of the selected dialog elements and defining execution paths of the application as respective sequences of at least a subset of the selected dialog elements and a code generator for generating application code for the application. The application code represents each dialog element of the application as a sequence of VoiceXML elements including extended attributes to allow the tree structure of the application to be determined.