One or more characters preceded by an

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What is a Variable?

• One or more characters preceded by an which,
  when executed, will be replaced by a saved
  character string.
• Example date

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Kinds of Variables

• Predefined
• date, tod
• User-defined
• name

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Predefined Variables

• date January 1, 2000
• day Monday
• month August
• year 2001
• time 230 pm
• tod morning
• Say Good tod, it is time on day, date.

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Predefined Variables
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Address context ce E-mail context r Reset
speech tags say My zip is ca 80401-1118. My
phone is 303/278-2244 Say Variables are e way
cool.
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Predefined Variables

• Response
• Speech Recognition
• Contains users response to your last Listen or
  ListenFor command

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User-defined Variables

• Form on Tools menu
• Assign in Script

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Script Command Set

• Format
• Set varnamestring
• Examples
• Set nameTom
• Set placeOrlando
• Set greetGood tod, name.

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Rules for Variable Names

• Always begin with
• Alphanumeric characters
• Case-sensitive
• No spaces
• No symbols except _ (shift hyphen)

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Variable Form
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Variable Form
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