1. A distributed interactive media system, said system comprising: a location server, said location server storing a location of an interactive application; an application server, said application server storing, at said location, said interactive application in a predetermined format, said interactive application calling for spoken text and speech recognition; a plurality of media resources, said plurality of media resources including at least one automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine and at least one text-to-speech (TTS) engine; a resource manager for managing usage of said media resources; and a browser, said browser obtaining said location from said location server and said interactive application in said predetermined format from said application server, said browser invoking said media resources through said resource manager in accordance with said interactive application, wherein said browser invokes said at least one TTS engine when said interactive application calls for spoken text and invokes said at least one ASR engine when said interactive application calls for speech recognition.
1. A distributed interactive media system, said system comprising: a location server, said location server storing a location of an interactive application; an application server, said application server storing, at said location, said interactive application in a predetermined format, said interactive application calling for spoken text and speech recognition; a plurality of media resources, said plurality of media resources including at least one automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine and at least one text-to-speech (TTS) engine; a resource manager for managing usage of said media resources; and a browser, said browser obtaining said location from said location server and said interactive application in said predetermined format from said application server, said browser invoking said media resources through said resource manager in accordance with said interactive application, wherein said browser invokes said at least one TTS engine when said interactive application calls for spoken text and invokes said at least one ASR engine when said interactive application calls for speech recognition. 6. The distributed interactive media system of claim 1 , wherein said browser is a voice browser and wherein said predetermined format is a voice extensible markup language (VXML).