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assign	Assigns a value to a variable.
audio	Plays an audio file or converts text to speech within a prompt.
block	Specifies a block of directives that are executed in document source order.
break	Introduces a specified amount of silence into the audio played back to the user.
catch	Catches events thrown by a VoiceXML application or the Tellme Platform.
choice	Defines a menu option.
clear	Resets the specified form items.
data	Provides programmatic access to data in XML format from an HTTP server without transitioning to a new VoiceXML document.*
disconnect	Terminates the phone call.
else	Provides the final alternative in an if construct.
elseif	Provides an alternative conditional statement in an if construct.
emphasis	Indicates the prominence or stress with which the enclosed text should be played back by the TTS engine.
enumerate	Creates a template for choices in a menu.
error	Handles errors thrown by the platform or throw element.
exit	Terminates the running application.
field	Formulates an interactive dialog between the user and the system.
filled	Specifies an action to perform when the VoiceXML interpreter assigns a value to the named variable of a field, transfer, record, or subdialog element.
foreach	Iterates through an ECMAScript array of items.*
form	Contains a series of field items to be filled through interaction with the user.
goto	Jumps to the specified URI.
grammar	Specifies a permissible vocabulary for user interaction.
help	Handles a help event.
if	Performs conditional logic.
initial	Prompts the user for form-wide information.
link	Specifies one or more grammars and a destination to go to or an event to throw when one is matched.
log	Writes to the Tellme Studio Debug Log.
menu	Presents a list of choices to the user and transitions to the chosen information.
meta	Specifies general information about the VoiceXML document.
noinput	Executes when the user does not speak within the active field.
nomatch	Handles user input that is not recognized as part of the active grammar(s).
object	The Tellme Platform currently does not support object.
option	Specifies an option to a user within a field.
p	Serves as a container for zero or more sentences.
paragraph	Serves as a container for zero or more sentences.
param	Specifies a value to pass to a subdialog element.
phoneme	Specifies a phonetic pronunciation for the contained text.
prompt	Queues recorded audio and synthesized text to speech in an interactive dialog.
property	Specifies speech parameters for an entire application, document, or form.
prosody	Indicates how the enclosed text should be played back by the TTS engine with the intent of evoking a more human-like quality and of improving comprehensibility .
record	Records user input.
reprompt	Indicates that the Platform should select and queue the appropriate prompt element before entering a listen state in an interactive dialog.
return	Returns control and data or an event to the dialog that called the subdialog.
s	Identifies the enclosed text as a complete sentence.
say-as	Aids the TTS engine in pronunciation by resolving ambiguities regarding the meaning of the contained text.
script	Includes a block of ECMAscript code.
sentence	Identifies the enclosed text as a complete sentence.
subdialog	Jumps to and executes an encapsulated dialog.
submit	Obtains a new document via an HTTP GET or POST request.
throw	Generates a system or user-defined event to catch with an event handler.
transfer	Transfers the caller to the specified telephone number.
value	Evaluates and returns an ECMAScript expression.
var	Declares a variable.
voice	Controls the vocal characteristics for the contained text when played back by the TTS engine.
vxml	Represents the root document element of a VoiceXML document.

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