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{{Short description|Interactive voice user interface}}
A '''voice browser''' is a [[Application software|software application]] that presents an interactive [[voice user interface]] to the user in a manner analogous to the functioning of a [[web browser]] interpreting [[Hypertext Markup Language]] (HTML). Dialog documents interpreted by voice browser are often encoded in standards-based markup languages, such as [[VoiceXML|Voice Dialog Extensible Markup Language]] (VoiceXML), a standard by the  [[World Wide Web Consortium]].

A voice browser presents information aurally, using pre-recorded audio file playback or [[Speech synthesis|text-to-speech]] synthesis software.  A voice browser obtains information using [[speech recognition]] and keypad entry, such as [[DTMF]] detection. 

As speech recognition and web technologies have matured, voice applications are deployed commercially in many industries and voice browsers are supplanting traditional proprietary [[interactive voice response]] (IVR) systems. Voice browser software is delivered in a variety of implementations models.

Systems that present a voice browser to a user, typically provide interfaces to the [[public switched telephone network]] or to a [[private branch exchange]].