Motorola 1 User Manual

INPUT Element : Type TIME

October 1998

VoxML 1.0 Language Reference 33

The TIME input type is used to collect a time of day from the user.

<INPUT TYPE="TIME" NAME="value" NEXT="value"
[NEXTMETHOD="value"] [TIMEOUT="value"] />

NAME

NEXT

NEXTMETHOD

GET *

POST

TIMEOUT

1 <STEP NAME="init">
2     <PROMPT> What time would you like your wakeup
3         call? </PROMPT>
4     <INPUT TYPE="time" NAME="wakeup" NEXT="#record"/>
6 </STEP>

This example makes use of the TIME input type to collect a time of day from
the user, store that data in the VoxML variable named “wakeup”, and then go to
the STEP named “record”.

The TIME input makes use of an input grammar to interpret the user’s response
and store that response in a standard format.  This grammar will interpret
responses of various forms, including both 12-hour and 24-hour conventions.

“Four o’clock” is stored as “400”.  Since the user was not specific as to the
morning or evening, no indication is stored in the VoxML variable.

“Four oh three PM” becomes “403P”.  Note the “P” appended to the time.
Likewise, “Ten fifteen in the morning” becomes “1015A”.  Note the “A”.
“Noon” is stored as “1200P”, and “Midnight” is stored as “1200A”.  Military
time, such as, “Thirteen hundred hours” becomes “100P”.