VoiceXML(TM) Forum Founders Submit VoiceXML 1.0 Specification
to W3C
Submission Marks Milestone on the Path to Voice-Enabled Internet
May 22, 2000 - Piscataway, N.J. - The VoiceXML
Forum today announced that the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has acknowledged
the submission of Version 1.0 of the VoiceXML
specification. At its May 10-12 meetings in
Paris, the W3C's Voice Browser Working Group agreed
to adopt VoiceXML 1.0 as the basis for the development
of a W3C dialog markup language.
The Forum's founding members,
AT&T, IBM,
Lucent
Technologies, and Motorola
made the W3C submission. Acknowledgement by the
W3C will help to accelerate and expand the reach
of the Internet through voice-enabled Web content
and services. The VoiceXML Forum will host the
next meeting of the W3C Voice Browser Working
Group in September 2000.
"As the W3C Voice Browser Working Group begins
to define the speech interface framework that
extends the Web to voice-based devices, we will
use VoiceXML as a model for our dialog markup
language. The W3C speech interface framework will
include integrated markup languages for dialog,
grammar, speech synthesis, natural language semantics,
and multimodal dialogs, as well as a standard
list of reusable dialogs," said Jim Larson of
the Intel Architecture Labs, who is Co-chair of
the W3C Voice Browser Working Group.
The VoiceXML 1.0 specification is based on years
of research and development at AT&T, IBM, Lucent
Technologies and Motorola, as well as on comments
from VoiceXML Forum supporters. Since the release
of VoiceXML 1.0 in March 2000, the Forum has nearly
doubled its supporter
membership to more than 150 companies.
Based on the World Wide Web Consortium's industry-standard
Extensible Markup Language (XML), Version 1.0
of the VoiceXML specification provides a high-level
programming interface to speech and telephony
resources for application developers, service
providers and equipment manufacturers. Standardization
of VoiceXML will: ·
- simplify
creation and delivery of Web-based, personalized
interactive voice-response services; ·
- enable
phone and voice access to integrated call center
databases, information and services on Web sites,
and company intranets; and ·
- help
enable new voice-capable devices and appliances.
The
VoiceXML Forum will continue its activities to
support and promote VoiceXML as a standard method
for providing voice access to Internet content
and services.
Members of the Forum will be participating in
the Speech
Technology & Applications Expo 2000 in San
Jose on May 22-24. The first day of the Expo will
conclude with a VoiceXML Tutorial. VoiceXML will
also be the focus of at least five other presentations
given during the three-day conference.
The VoiceXML Forum is open to any company interested
in making Internet information and content accessible
by voice and phone. For further information, please
contact Cindy Tiritilli, VoiceXML Forum Program
Administrator at 732-465-6464 or ctiritilli@voicexml.org.
More
information about VoiceXML can be obtained by
visiting the W3C Web Site at http://www.w3.org/Submission/2000/04/
or the VoiceXML Forum's web site at .
The complete W3C Note, Voice eXtensible Markup
Language (VoiceXML) version 1.0, can be obtained
directly at, http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-voicexml-20000505/.
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Contact:
Peter
Lefkin
VoiceXML Forum
732-465-6464
plefkin@voicexml.org
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