Register for the First Annual VoiceXML Forum Users Group
Meeting
The
First Annual VoiceXML Forum Users Group Meeting invites
individuals and companies who have an interest in VoiceXML
technology to gather with VoiceXML industry leaders
to share issues, knowledge, and information about one
of the fastest growing technologies in the telephony
business. This special event will be held the day after
the closing session of AVIOS 2001 and at the same venue
(5 April 2001; DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, Calif.).
The intended audience is application developers; platform
and service vendors; technology consultants and analysts;
enterprise IT and call center managers; and executives.
For more information about this event, including regstration
an agenda, go to http://www.voicexml.org/users_group.html
VoiceGenie
Announces Winners of Its $20,000 Developers Contest
VoiceGenie
Technologies Inc., a Promoter Member of the VoiceXML
Forum, recently announced the winners of the VoiceGenie
VoiceXML Developers' Challenge. Participants were challenged
to create a VoiceXML application over a two month period.
All submissions were judged on functionality, originality,
ease-of-use, richness, responsiveness, usefulness and
reliability. In first place receiving $10,000 for his
application entitled "Who wants to be a Villionaire?"
was Rishi Malhotra of Toronto, Canada. Malhotra's application
is a voice (hence the V in the spelling of Villionaire)
spin-off of the popular "Who wants to a Millionaire"
game show.
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the Full Story
Jiffy
Lube to Use VoiceXML for Its Voice-Enabled Reminder
Service
Jiffy
Lube International announced that it will use VoiceXML
to build a mobile, voice-enabled oil change reminder
service. The company's new m-commerce initiative will
promote the telephone as a new permission-based customer
relationship channel and will add speech recognition
and an opt-in automated oil change alert feature to
Jiffy Lube's CRM strategies. The "My Jiffy Lube
Reminder" program will start at Jiffy Lube's 49
stores in the Houston, Texas, in mid-February, and eventually
will be available at other locations. Read
the full story
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The VoiceXML Forum is a program of the
IEEE
Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO).
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