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 »
How It Works: Be Your Own Barista, With a Programmable Helper – [Free registration required] One of my favorite electronic devices at home is my Capresso C2000, which my wife purchased for me several years ago from Whole Latte Love. Capresso was discontinuing the C2000 model, so Whole Latte Love had a closeout sale on… Read More »
I’m sure Success BBQ sounded like a good name for a restaurant when they opened the place. The barbed wire fence now surrounding the entire building suggests otherwise. I took this photo with the camera on my Treo 600 while my wife was driving down the street. I’ve gotten a bit better at extracting acceptable… 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 »
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Rumsfeld Faces The Nation, And Stammers Donald Rumsfield is learning that if you make enough really bad decisions and then later lie about them in public to cover them up, the lies eventually come back to haunt you. During an interview on “Face the Nation” Rumsfeld choked out a denial that he or the… Read More »
In a previous post, I described how I found xinf to be a better music player and library for Linux than Rhythmbox, a.k.a., Music Player. Rhythmbox was included on my Fedora install CDs, so I thought I would give it another chance. The short summary is that it is now my primary music player and… Read More »
I received my check for $13.86 a couple days ago as part of the settlement of the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation. I thought about using it to buy some blank CD-Rs, but I discovered a better option. I donated my check to the EFF. Okay, so I’m going to cash the actual… Read More »
As I reported last October, when I returned from a 10-day trip and turned my PC on, the main hard drive just made clicking sounds and Windows XP failed to boot. Oddly enough, if I left the machine on long enough and attempted to reboot it enough times, the Linux GRUB boot loader on the… Read More »
Mojo Retiring Back when I was the GM at KTRU, Mojo Nixon came into the station for an interview. After the interview, Ray and I took him into the production studio to record a station ID. We rolled tape and after a couple seconds of him making all kinds of wild yelling sounds (if you’ve… Read More »