Enhanced graphical development environment for controlling mixed initiative applications

摘要

The present invention is directed to a system and method which promotes conversational mixed initiative applications by taking advantage of additional grammars that are active. In one embodiment, the development environment allows an application designer to define a navigational grammar, a universal grammar, and a directed dialog call flow grammar. The grammars can be active throughout the call flow or at selected times and are weighted to work with all of the directed grammars. The processing that is followed by each of these grammars is defined separately so that each grammar can be context sensitive.