April 2005
Dear Readers,
 Despite
a blast of cold snowy weather last weekend, we’re hopeful that spring is finally here to
stay! Unlike the weather in Michigan, we can say with
certainty that VoiceXML is here to stay. Opera Software
dramatically increased the number of VoiceXML deployments
around the globe during April, as they experienced
over a million downloads of their Opera 8 browser within
the first four days after it was released. As many
of you are perhaps already aware, each Windows version
of Opera 8 is XHTML+Voice enabled by IBM’s Multimodal
Runtime and the ViaVoice speech recognizer.
In
this issue of the VoiceXML Review Igor Jablokov,
Program Director of IBM Software Group’s Multimodal & Voice
Portal Initiatives fills us in on the details of the
multimodal-enabled
Opera browser and discusses the
possible use cases in which X+V can be applied.
You
might recall the series of introductory articles
to CCXML we’ve featured in the past. This month,
RJ Auburn, CTO of Voxeo is back again, with an interesting
write-up on using CCXML
as a SIP Softswitch. On a related
note, congratulations are due to the Voxeo team in
achieving VoiceXML Forum Platform Certification this
month for their VoiceCenter platform!
Rob
Marchand (VoiceGenie), our regular First Words columnist
continues our tour of the new VoiceXML 2.1
working draft specification. Last month Rob demonstrated
how to use the <mark> element to determine how
much of a prompt the user has listened to before barging
in on it. This month Rob introduces the <foreach> tag,
a convenient looping construct added by the new specification.
Finally,
if you haven’t yet discovered the VoiceXML
Forum Webinars, you might want to keep an eye on http://www.voicexml.org/webinars.
The next webinar will feature Peter Leppik, CEO of
Vocal Laboratories, Inc on Tuesday, May 3, 2005. Peter’s
topic will be on “A Scientific Approach to Better
VUI Design”. These webinars are offered free
to the first 50 forum members who register. Don’t
delay registering, as our past webinars have filled
up very quickly!
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Engelsma
Editor-in-Chief
VoiceXML Review
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