This publication applies to VoRDE - Neda Communications, Inc.'s Voice Response Development Environment as implemented for a computer equipped with Dialogic hardware and MSDOS operating system.
VoRDE is a collection of generalized commands, voice programming tools, software libraries, and related publications. Typically, a voice application programmer, a voice response system manager, and a casual end user will require access to different subsets of this collection. Anyone coming to VoRDE for the first time will find it useful to read through an overview of concepts and facilities.
The following section provides such an overview. Where appropriate, reference to other sections of this publication or other related publications will be made.
This manual is written in LATEXinfo. LATEXinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file for both on-line documentation and a printed manual. See the LATEXinfo Manual for more details [8].
The on-line documentation is in the form of an Info file. An on-line Info file is a file formatted so that the Info documentation reading program can operate on it. Info files are divided into pieces called nodes, each of which contains the discussion of one topic. M-x info in emacs and xinfo under X11 are two Info documentation reading programs that can be used for on-line manipulation of this manual.