CNN.com – Southern drawls don’t compute – Nov. 17, 2003 Southern drawls have thwarted voice recognition equipment used by the Shreveport Police Department to route non-emergency calls. “In Louisiana, we have a problem with Southern drawl and what I call lazy mouth. Because of that, the system often doesn’t recognize what [callers] say,” [Capt. John… Read More »
A couple of researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Hitachi have written a paper on an extension to VoiceXML to more easily support complex dialog systems. Their focus is on scenarios where you have multiple related dialogs and want to allow for flexible transitions between these dialogs. From the abstract: This paper describes DialogXML, an extension… Read More »
I just uploaded the 0.3 release of SoccerPhone to the SourceForge project site. This is a minor release. The only changes I made were to accomodate recent changes to the MLSNet.com live scores page. Unfortunately, they have been changing fundamental aspects of their HTML markup nearly every week. Sometimes I get lucky and their changes… Read More »
Audioblog of a performance by Uprock at Digital Mix, a benefit for EFF.
HP buys small, but highly influential, VoiceXML company PipeBeach.
Microsoft Beta to Make ’em Talk Microsoft has released a public beta of their Speech Server and a new beta of their Speech Application SDK. Microsoft had previously teamed up primarily with Intel to propose a new standard called SALT that is somewhat competitive with VoiceXML. As of now, I contrast the two as: SALT… Read More »
While porting SoccerPhone from TellMe to BeVocal, I ran into a couple differences between the two as a development environment and a deployment environment. Porting Code from TellMe to BeVocal The porting process went pretty quickly. Fortunately, the Python CGI scripts didn’t have to change. Three cheers for standards and for application communication via XML… Read More »
I just published the 0.2 release of SoccerPhone to the SourceForge project site. The main two features of this release are: Support for the 2003 version of the MLS live scores page Support for BeVocal as well as TellMe as a VoiceXML gateway I had always wanted to port SoccerPhone to another VoiceXML Gateway, but… Read More »
The Technology section of Der Spiegel Online has a long article on audio blogging [German | Google Translation] titled “audio blogs: Voices from the Web”. PhoneBlogger makes an appearance in the Internet links sidebar as “Audioblog solutions (III)” and in the main text of the article.
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Bad news for my free, public SoccerPhone service, which ran as a TellMe Extension. I received the following email from TellMe today: VoiceXML Developer, Tellme has made many investments in VoiceXML over the past four years. One of these investments was in the Extensions program, with the goal of making VoiceXML a more utilized public… Read More »