Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-09 Thread Peter Lin
by the way, there is a standard Text To Speech API and reference implementing for Java. I know Leap Wireless uses that with an EJB container for some internal applications. I can't go into details, but I do know of cases where it scales just fine. peter On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:19:23 -0700, Darshan

Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-09 Thread Peter Lin
I think I get a better picture. I was guessing it might be a Text To Speech application. I use to work on a wireless platform and one of the features we explored was converting emails to .wav files and send them to the user. in my experience, the wav file would have been sent to a WAP phone with a

Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-09 Thread Darshan Rawal
Hi Peter, I suppose there is some confusion. I believe you got it right, that the Media Server is the one which will interpret the VXML pages and not the Application server. But these VXML pages wont have any SPEECH in it. Instead they have specific TAGS related to speech for e.g a snipplet from a

Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-08 Thread Peter Lin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:59:23 -0700, Darshan Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > > I completely agree on this, but this interpretation of VXML pages is > going to happen on the Media Server side. Hence as of now I am just > concerned with generation of VXML pages and transporting th

Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-08 Thread Darshan Rawal
Hello Peter, Nice to know that somebody replied. Was really desperate to get some inputs!! My replies are included below. On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:39:23 -0400, Peter Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from where I am sitting, sounds like the project doesn't have enough > information to make a good dec

Re: Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-08 Thread Peter Lin
from where I am sitting, sounds like the project doesn't have enough information to make a good decision. Why move from MML/TCP to VXML/HTTP? if you read my performance article on the resources page, XML is very CPU and memory intensive. Even with XStream java-xml binding library, handling moderat

Request for Inputs for a Design/Architecture for VXML Application Server

2004-07-08 Thread Darshan Rawal
We implement a Messaging PLatform for Voice Applications. Our current platform has 2 Major Components as shown below:- Media Server <--- MML/TCP-IP ---> Application Server. We want to move to a new architecture for our Application Server where the interaction between App Server and Media Server i