Introducing

Ted Pak

QuickFuse Team, Plum Voice

Whence came QuickFuse?

(A brief history of voice app

development)

Voice dev before 2004

www →

for teh phonez??

VoiceXML 2.0

(and shortly afterward, 2.1)

Yay open standards.

It’s long…

…

~147 pages

“programming” in XML

<block> <if cond=“foo==1 &amp;&amp; bar&gt;3”> <prompt>Oh no!</prompt> <elseif cond=“baz” /> <value name=“x” expr=“1” /> <else /> <goto nextitem=“hai” /> </if></block>

Tricky fundamentals

Form interpretation algorithm

Root documents

…

You’re not done. HW:

JS, SRGS, SISR, JSGF, SSML, …

The whole stack.

It’s complicated

How do people really think about voice apps?

le pipes

mashup

frictionless

Let’s get started.