VBSALT

VBSALT is a Rapid Application Development Environment that complements the Microsoft Speech Server. It allows IT Managers, software programmers and call center developers to create speech enabled applications such as IVRs, Auto-Attendants, Infolines and more. Highlights of VBSALT include a drag-and-drop user interface, encapsulated best practices for voice user interface design and the ability to leverage existing programming skills such as C#, VB.NET etc.

Features include:

- Developers leverage existing programming skills with a call-flow development environment

- Graphical design environment for call flows: drag-and-drop interface with fully programmable controls

- Set of high-level telephony and speech building blocks

- Controls encapsulate best practices for voice user interface (VUI) design such as prompt escalation, error handling and context sensitive help

- Access to speech components of the Microsoft Speech SDK directly from a call flow

- Transparent generation and interpretation of SALT tags

- Visual Studio.NET for programming and debugging

- Event-driven customization of call-flows, in any of the languages supported by Visual Studio.NET.

- Framework for dealing with common programming problems in telephony, such as thread synchronization, inter-channel communication etc.

- Reduced learning curve for developers new to telephony and speech; no requirement for Web scripting skills (JScript)

- Extensible development environment: .NET and Web services for enterprise connectivity