Archive of W3C News in 2004 – Working Draft: VoiceXML 2.1 As announced on the W3C website, the voice browser working group email discussion list, and at the SpeechTEK conference I’m attending, the working draft for VoiceXML 2.1 was released today. The best news for me is that the <data> tag is part of the… Read More »
I’ll be at SpeechTEK Spring across the bay in San Francisco Tuesday through Friday. Leave a comment or email me at robert AT wombatnation DOT com if you’ll be there, too, and would like to meet up. I won’t be manning the Avaya booth, but I’ll definitely stop by there while the Expo is open.… Read More »
World Wide Web Consortium Issues VoiceXML 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation The W3C advanced VoiceXML 2.0 and Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) from Candidate Recommendation status to Recommendation status. Although vendors have been delivering products that implement the VXML 2.0 and SRGS specs for several years now, it’s good for the specifications to reach the… Read More »
W3C risks patent tussle in standard push | CNET News.com A software patent problem continues to hang over VoiceXML 2.0, which reached proposed recommendation status this month. The problem is that the Patent Advisory Group that was supposed to make sure that any relevant patents would be offered on royalty free terms never got Rutgers… Read More »
Now here’s something every kid will love. Santa Claus and his elf Pixel have been outsourced as VoiceXML applications. I guess wages for customer service reps at the North Pole have gone up too much.
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.