VoiceXML Review used to regularly publish interesting articles and news updates related to VoiceXML, but had fallen somewhat silent over the last six months or so. A lot has been going on with respect to VXML 2.1 and 3.0, so I’ve been hoping to see some more activity on the site. It’s good to see that someone from the VoiceXML Forum is updating it again.
One of the articles at first looked like a totally unrelated article on internship programs at IBM. However, the two interns who wrote about their experiences both worked on speech technologies with members of the Pervasive Computing group at IBM.
The team in Austin used the Opera browser and XHTML+Voice to create a multimodal application for finding info on movies playing at local cinemas. I remain quite skeptical about the value of multimodal applications on PDAs (at least with the PDA technologies of the next 1-2 years), but it’s still good to see people making progress with standards-based approaches like X+V for building multimodal apps.