This section gives a
general overview of the Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) V1.0 and how it is implemented for
Blueworx Voice Response state tables.
What is the Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP)? The Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) was developed jointly by Cisco Systems Inc., Nuance Communications, and Speechworks Inc. to allow client devices such as personal computers or mobile phones to control 'media resources' such as speech synthesizers and speech recognizers, which typically would be configured to run on IP network-based servers.
The Blueworx Voice Response MRCP state table API The Blueworx Voice Response MRCP client state table API provides a means by which Blueworx Voice Response state table applications can access MRCP text-to-speech (TTS) servers attached to the Blueworx Voice Response client over an IP network. It consists of a set of state tables (each named with a prefix of MST_) which can be called directly from a State Table application. These state tables then call an Blueworx-supplied custom server (MST) which contains the MRCP client implementation.