Static Content

One sample interaction between the system and the user might sound like this:

System: Welcome to the online banking super store. Please choose from the following choices. Branch Locations, Interest Rates, Investment Information. User: Branch Locations.

At this point, the system retrieves and interprets the VoiceXML document located at http://www.yourbank.example/locations.vxml. This new document specifies the next segment of the interaction between the system and the user, namely a dialog to locate the nearest bank branch.

This interaction uses the <menu> element, but not the <form> element, from the sample VoiceXML document. It illustrates a level of capability similar to that provided for visual applications by a set of static HTML hyperlinks. For dynamic distributed services, you need to also use the <form> element.