As a final step in planning your speech application, you must attempt to identify and list all the application resources you will need to develop the application. Application resources include components such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) servers, prerecorded phrases that the system plays back as prompts, and so on.

If you have planned the flow completely, keeping in mind all the resources you will need, you can list those application resources before you actually start to develop the application. Then you can create or import those resources before creating the call flow.

In the case of phrases, for example, if you know exactly what phrases you want to use, and if you plan to have those phrases recorded by a professional talent, you can list all the phrases and have them recorded as WAV files before you start to develop the actual application. Then, when you get to the points in the application where you need the phrases, you can import the prerecorded files.