Programming Reference

The following sections of the programming reference are pertinent to all types of voice response applications:

• Speech Recognition Grammar References contains references for grammar XML, semantic interpretation markup, grammar libraries, and the Semantic Markup Language (SML).
  
• Speech Output References contains references for prompt engine markup language (PEML), and speech synthesis markup language (SSML).
  
• User Language Support Reference contains information about the support of user languages.
  

The following sections of the programming reference are pertinent to one specific type of voice response applications:

• The SpeechServer Class Library contains references for the SpeechServer class library. The SpeechServer class library supports voice response applications based on the Windows Workflow Foundation. The functionality described in this section is pertinent only to managed code voice response applications.
  
• The SALT Reference contains references for Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) and the SALT Document Object Model (DOM) class library. SALT is an extension of HTML and XHTML that adds speech recognition input, audio and text-to-speech playback, and DTMF input to a Web application. The functionality described in this section is pertinent only to SALT and SpeechControls voice response applications.
  
• The SpeechControls Reference introduces SpeechControls for creating Web-based voice response applications. The functionality described in this section is pertinent only to SALT and SpeechControls voice response applications.
  
• W3C VoiceXML 2.0 Introduction contains references for writing voice response applications with VoiceXML. The functionality described in this section is pertinent only to VoiceXML voice response applications.