universals

Universals are an easy way for an application to include support for commonly used application-wide phrases like "Help". You can set the value of the universals property to one or more of the following:

• Help
• Cancel
• Exit
• Operator (Nuance extension)

The value "all" is an alias for all of "Help", "Cancel", "Exit", and “Operator”. None (the default) disables all universals.

Each universal has a default catch handler, or can be explicitly caught and handled. For example:

<catch event=”cancel”/>

Developers who need custom control over the grammars for each of these universals can disable the universals property, and provide a <link> for each command instead.