Cisco Cisco Unified IP Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 8.0(1) Guide D’Installation Rapide
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Glossary
Trigger
Signals that respond to incoming contacts at a specified route point by selecting
telephony and media resources to serve the contact and invoking application
scripts to handle it. The CRS system uses JTAPI triggers to start responses to
telephone calls and HTTP triggers to start responses to HTTP requests. In these
cases, telephone numbers and Web addresses (associated with the triggers) act
as the triggers.
TTS
Text-to-Speech. A speech synthesis application that creates a spoken sound
version of the text in a document or database.
TTS Client
A component of TTS that must reside on the Cisco CRS server.
TTS Server
A dedicated server that converts text into speech and plays it back to the caller.
V
Variable
A placeholder for data.
VXML (also VoiceXML)
Voice Extensible Markup Language. Allows a user to interact with the Internet
through voice-recognition technology.
X
XML
Extensible Markup Language. A programming language developed by the World
Wide Web Consortium that allows Web developers to create customized tags that
will organize and deliver efficiently. XML is a metalanguage, containing a set of
rules for constructing other markup languages.