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WebSphere Voice Toolkit V6.2

IBM® WebSphere® Voice Toolkit is an enhanced collection of technologies for creating sophisticated voice applications.

Overview

The WebSphere Voice Toolkit is an enhanced collection of technologies for creating sophisticated voice applications. It is powered by Eclipse technology and makes it easy to develop VoiceXML applications without having to know the internals of voice technology:

It provides the tools to build, debug, and deploy voice applications for use with IBM WebSphere Voice Response and MRCP V1.0 speech servers.
It's features include a full-featured voice development environment including call flow building, VoiceXML development and debugging, Grammar development and debugging, and Call Control Extensible Markup Language (CCXML) development.
It includes Graphical Grammar Builder for visual composition of a grammar file for speech recognition, and graphical Communication Flow Builder for automatic generation of VoiceXML.

Features and benefits

Product features of WebSphere Voice Toolkit include:

Communication Flow Builder
Graphical Grammar Builder
VoiceXML 2.1 support
VoiceXML editor
Call Control eXtensible Markup Language (CCXML) editor
Built-in audio recorder
Audio analysis tool
VoiceXML Conversion wizard from 1.0 to 2.0, 1.0 to 2.1 or 2.0 to 2.1
Grammar Conversion wizard from JSGF to SRGS, BNF to SRGS, or SRGS to SRGS (XML➝ABNF or ABNF➝XML)

It has a number of key features:

It provides the ability to create applications for the VoiceXML 2.1 application programming model and voice technologies.
The Communication Flow Builder-a graphical tool for visual composition of a voice application, based on GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) technology. The concept is similar to that of a flowchart diagram, with nodes, links, and decision points. The palette of nodes can be used to describe the flow of most VoiceXML applications.
The tool provides an easy to use way to design and prototype a voice application by someone who is not familiar with VoiceXML programming, for proof-of-concept demonstrations and generation of executable VoiceXML code. One will be able to construct the entire application visually, test the flow, create grammars and prompts, and produce reports and metrics based on analysis of the call flow.
Call Control eXtensible Markup Language (CCXML) editor: The CCXML Editor extends the base XML editor to provide a development tool for CCXML (Call Control) markup, for purposes of creation and modification of CCXML documents. This editor provides a set of functions similar to the VoiceXML editor (Preference management, formatting, validation, etc.) except it is based on the proposed CCXML standards. For more information about CCXML, see http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/.
Grammar Weighting Tool allows users to weight their grammars files based on user-collected data
Variable DTD - The ability to specify an XML DTD file has been added to all of the XML based editors (VoiceXML, CCXML, and SRGS XML). This allows the user to validate and provide Content Assist based on the actual DTD that will be used by their deployed application.
Support for MRCP (Media Resource Control Protocol) V1.0 capabilities.

System requirements

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Windows XP Professional	Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Eclipse V3.7	System suitable for running Windows XP or Windows 7 Professional. System suitable for running Eclipse V3.7 Minimum of an Intel(R) Pentium(R) III 800 MHz processor or equivalent (1.0 GHz recommended) 1GB RAM A display adapter setting of at least 256 colors and 1024x768 resolution or higher Sound card and speakers for audio playback 800 MB minimum free disk space (in addition to the disk space requirement for RAD/RWD/RSA), plus additional space for the installation options selected by the user For installation, an additional 800 MB temporary space on the drive specified in your user's TMP environment variable.
Windows 7 Professional	Microsoft Windows 7 (Service Pack 1) Eclipse V3.7

Operating System

Software

Hardware

Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
Eclipse V3.7

System suitable for running Windows XP or Windows 7 Professional.

System suitable for running Eclipse V3.7

Minimum of an Intel(R) Pentium(R) III 800 MHz processor or equivalent (1.0 GHz recommended)

1GB RAM

A display adapter setting of at least 256 colors and 1024x768 resolution or higher

Sound card and speakers for audio playback

800 MB minimum free disk space (in addition to the disk space requirement for RAD/RWD/RSA), plus additional space for the installation options selected by the user

For installation, an additional 800 MB temporary space on the drive specified in your user's TMP environment variable.

Windows 7 Professional

Microsoft Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)
Eclipse V3.7

Installation

Important: If you have already installed the WebSphere Voice Toolkit, you must uninstall it before reinstalling. To do this, follow the steps in Uninstalling.

To install the WebSphere Voice Toolkit V6.2:

If you have not already done so, download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers V3.7.1 from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads, and install it. (You can use other editions of Eclipse V3.7.1, but if you do so, you all must import the WST plugins required by the WebSphere Voice Toolkit.)
Download the .zip file. See the Downloads section.
Start an instance of Eclipse.
Click Help->Install New Software to display the Install window.
Ensure that sure the Group items by category box is unchecked.
Click Add.
In the Add Repository window that is then displayed, click Archive and select the location of the .zip file that you downloaded in Step 2.
Click OK to display a window similar to the following:
Select each of the four features and click Next.
In the window that is then displayed, click Next to display the Review Licenses window.
Read the terms of the license agreement. If you accept its terms, and want to continue installing the WebSphere Voice Toolkit V6.2, click I accept the terms of the license agreements.
Click Finish. The Installing Software window is displayed while the WebSphere Voice Toolkit is being installed.
Click OK to continue the installation if a Security Warning window similar to the following is displayed that warns of unsigned content. The WebSphere Voice Toolkit packages are unsigned.
At the end of the installation process, a Software Updates window is displayed, asking you if you want to restart. Click Restart Now to restart Eclipse and allow the installation changes to take effect.
When Eclipse restarts, click Window->Open Perspective->Other. In the Open Perspective window that is displayed, select Voice and click OK.

Uninstalling

To uninstall the WebSphere Voice Toolkit V6.2:

Click Help->About Eclipse SDK.
In the About Eclipse SDK window that is displayed, click Installation Details. The Installation Details window is displayed.
Select the four WebSphere Voice Toolkit plugins with names beginning com.ibm.voicetools.
Click Uninstall.
In the Uninstall Details window that is displayed, click Finish.
At the end of the unstallation process, a Software Updates dialog is displayed. Click Restart Now to restart Eclipse and allow the uninstallation changes to take effect.