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The Menu - Tone applet provides one or more options during a call, and can optionally play an announcement as an introduction to those options. For example, the announcement can tell the caller to press number 1 on their telephone keypad for Sales, 2 for Support, or 3 for any other queries. When the caller presses their chosen number, the call is routed to another applet.

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FieldOptionsDescription
Upload the audio file for menu options...Audio (.wav) file

The audio file that contains the menu options and is played when the call is routed to this applet.

Click Choose File to launch an Open dialog box. Select the audio file you want to use for the menu options.

For information about the format of the audio file, see Recording and preparing audio used in applets.

Alternative Text...TextThe text that the applet plays if you do not upload an audio file.

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FieldOptionsDescriptionKey Press
Announcement TypeList of announcement types

The type of information that the applet will announce.

Click Audio file (uploaded) to play a specific audio file. You need to upload the file in the Audio file field.

Click Dynamic audio file to play the audio file that you specify in the Announce from field. For information about specifying audio files in data sources, see Using dynamic announcements.

Click Text to use the text-to-speech feature and announce the specified text in the specified voice. For information about text-to-speech in announcements, see Using text-to-speech in announcements.

Audio file (uploaded)
Audio fileFile

The applet will play the file you upload.

Click Browse... to choose the file to upload a new file or replace an existing file.
Click Play to play the uploaded file.

Note
titleMaximum audio file size

The size of the audio that a customer provides can be a maximum of 10 MB (approximately 10 minutes).


Dynamic audio file

Data sourceData Source

The data source that contains the name of the audio file to play at runtime. If the data source contains a comma-separated list of values, the applet looks for and plays all corresponding audio files in the order in which they appear. If the audio file or any of the audio files do not exist, the applet plays no audio and pauses while waiting for the caller to press a number.

The Data source field contains both IVR slot and data source names. IVR slot names are prefixed with 'IVR Slot|'. 

Text to speech

For information about text-to-speech in announcements, see Using text-to-speech in announcements.

Dynamic voiceSelect or clear

Determines whether you use a dynamic or static voice to announce menu options.

Select the Dynamic voice check box to use a data source to define the voice at runtime.
Clear the Dynamic voice check box to use a static destination country for the voice.

Voice data sourceList of all available data sources

If you select the Dynamic voice check box, the Voice data source field appears.

A list of all available data sources.

Select the data source that will contain the voice you want to use to announce menu options at runtime.

VoiceList of voices available in Amazon Polly

If you clear the Dynamic voice check box, the Voice field appears.

A list of voices available in Amazon Polly. Select the voice you want to use to announce menu options.

TextText

The text that is announced in the specified voice. You can use a combination of text, digits and data sources. The resulting value in the Text field can contain a maximum of 1500 characters.

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titleData sources

The data sources are placeholders for the data sources' values at run time. Vonage Contact Center replaces the placeholders with values before announcing the text.

Use the following format to specify a placeholder for a data source:

$(DataSource)

For example, "Welcome to $(CompanyName) customer support."

Check announcementButton

If you clear the Dynamic voice check box, the Check announcement button appears.

To check the audio, click the Play button. VCC uses the Voice and Text values to generate audio.

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titleData sources

When generating test audio, VCC cannot replace any data sources in the Text field with actual values.

VCC announces data source names in the Text field — including the '$' — as if they are text. At runtime, VCC will include data source values in the audio as expected.


Download announcementButton

If you clear the Dynamic voice check box, the Download announcement button appears.

To download the audio, click the Download button. VCC uses the Voice and Text values to generate audio.

Info
titleData sources

When generating audio to download, VCC cannot replace any data sources in the Text field with actual values.

VCC announces data source names in the Text field — including the '$' — as if they are text. At runtime, VCC will include data source values in the audio as expected.


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FieldOptionsDescription
Menu option nList of available applets

The applet that the call is routed to when the caller presses key n.

n is a number from 0-9, or *

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Menu failure appletList of available appletsThe applet that the call is routed to when the menu fails to play the announcement.
FieldOptionsDescription
No Input Timeout Number
Pause time (seconds)Number

The length of time that the applet waits for the caller to press a key before playing the menu options again.

Max. No Input Count
Number of replaysMaximum or 1-10

The

maximum

number of times that the applet replays the menu options after no input.

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Zero
Maximum value
A

The maximum value of

0 in 

Max. No Input Count

 results in an unlimited number of times that the applet replays the menu options. We recommend therefore that you always specify a value of 1 or more. Applet to go to after above nbr of no inputs

is 20.


Next appletList of available appletsThe applet that the call is routed to when the
number of no inputs equals the Max. No Input Count.

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Number of replays has been reached.