Every market has its own specific features and so does the voice market.

Some essential pre-conditions need to be met to run a voice application. These two pre-conditions can be grouped into voice components and voice services.

Voice components are different products of different manufacturers, which are either bought or leased with a hosting-provider.

In the field of voice services you find the real programming of application but also the audio-design and the all too often underestimated designing of a sensible user-interface, the so-called Voice User Interface Design or in brief VUI-Design. Many bad implementations from the past have shown that technology is not the only decisive factor for the success of a voice application. It is rather know-how from the diverse domains in the voice-surroundings which is needed. The voice compass presents these domains and enumerates the relevant providers. That way every interested person can select an optimal team of manufacturers and providers.