Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice, The

The Design Specification—Conveying the Details of the Design

Once the vision clips have been made and the call flow has been finalized, the designer needs to flesh out and annotate the rest of the design details. These expressions of the design are collected in the Design Specification. The Design Specification needs to be clear, thorough, well thought out, and specific. This is the document programmers will use to implement the design.

There is no official format to follow in creating a Design Specification, but I recommend the following five sections that cover the following areas.

Goal of the Section	Potential Document Manifestation
To give an overview of the document	A short paragraph that describes who should read this document and the purpose ...