Welcome to VXMLizer Project Page

Project Team

• Abdussalam Alawini <alawini@pdx.edu>
• Hisham Benotman <benotman@pdx.edu>

What's VXML

VXML is A markup language used for the development of voice applications. Using only a traditional Web infrastructure, you can create applications that are accessible over the telephone (source: philip.greenspun.com/seia/glossary).

VXMLizer (VXML Visualizer)

We will build on two tools that we developed last term, one of which generates VXML scripts and the other one of which generates HTML files. VXMLizer will include VXML generator, VXML to HTML converter, VXML visualizer (as tree view).

Source code

• Download VXMLizer source code
• Browse GIT Repository

How to Use The Program Without Installation

• Download VXMLizer tarball file
• Extract the files in your home directroy
• Go to the Linux terminal and write the following commands:

alawini@alawini-ltp:~$ cd vxmlizer
alawini@alawini-ltp:~/vxmlizer$ ghci -XFlexibleInstances VXMLizer.lhs


• Part 1: VXML Generator Commands.

Vxmlizer> mkPrompt "hello world"
* mkPrompt creates a voice promot that the seach engine is going to speak.
Vxmlizer> ppElement $$
* ppElement is pretty print command that shows that tag "Element" as it's going to be stored in the VXML file
Vxmlizer> mkAudio "www.pdx.edu/intro.wav"
* Creates an audio tag that plays a wav file stored in the server web address provided.
Vxmlizer> add_conts [Elem $$] (mkPrompt "Hey There")
* add_cons is a command that add a child tag to its parrent. With this command we can create a whole VXML file.
Vxmlizer> genVXML myVXML1 "test1"
Vxmlizer> genVXML myVXML2 "test2"


• Results:
  test.vxml
  test2.vxml


• Part 2: VXML Visulizer Commands.

Vxmlizer> m_parseAndConvertVxml “form1.vxml” “form1.html”
* This command Converts one file from VXML to HTML
Vxmlizer> m_convertAll
* This command converts all VXML files in the current directory to HTML files
Vxmlizer> m_All2dot
* This command converts all VXML files in the current directory to dot files
Vxmlizer> !dot -Tpng form1.dot > form1.png
* This command converts a dot file to a png image

Note : To run the last command you need to install Graphviz
To download graphviz go to http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php


• Results:
  form1.html
  form1.png
  menu2.html
  menu2.png
  menu2_1.html
  menu2_2.html

How to Build and Install VXMLizer

• Download VXMLizer tarball file
• Extract the files in your home directroy
• Go to the Linux terminal and write the following commands:

$ cd "VXMLizer Path"
$ runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=$HOME --user
$ runhaskell Setup build
$ runhaskell Setup install


• To run the program from your machine write the following command:

$ VXMLizer mkPrompt "Hello World"

How can VXMLizer benefit you

• Generate VXML scripts without any required backgrounds of VXML scripting.
• When you have a VXML file that you don't know its content then VXMLizer can convert its content to HTML file where you can see the structure of the VXML file.
• Present the structure of any VXML script in tree like structure.

What's the plan

Click here to access the project plan page

Project Wiki

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vxmlizer/

Completed Tasks

For detailed project plan please visit the project plan page

• Project Describtion page is up on the class project wiki.
• Major Project components have been chosen.
• Project Web Page is Ready.
• Project Wiki Page is Ready.
• Project Plan Page is Ready.
• Project CPM is Done.
• VXMLizer is now registered on Sourceforge
• Improvments to VXML generator has been done
• We start working good with git, and we already uploaded or first working release of our source code
• Make improvements in XML Generator
• Change HTML data structures to use XML Light
• Develop Menu converter
• VXML output tags converter
• Forms and fields tags converter
• Grammar converter
• Understanding Tree dot module in Haskell
• Design Tree visualizer
• Develop the tree visualizer

LICENSE

http://web.pdx.edu/~alawini/LICENSE.html

Last Edited on 08/14/2009 10:38 PM