January 2003
Dear
Readers,
On behalf of the VoiceXML Forum's Publication Board,
I wish you all the very best in the year that lays before
us! Within the VoiceXML community, 2003 is going to
be an exciting time indeed. The incredible amount of
effort the W3C Voice Browser Working Group has put into
the specification has culminated in the
release of the
VoiceXML 2.0 Candidate Recommendation by the W3C. VoiceXML
is very real, and the vast array of VoiceXML products
and services currently being offered by Forum member
companies along with the progress of the specifications
within the W3C attest to this fact.
Readers will notice that the scope of the Forum's e-zine
is expanding this year. In the past years we've been
carefully following the progress of the W3C Voice Browser
Working Group and keeping you abreast of the latest
development in the various specifications by featuring
articles of key technical contributors in the VBWG.
While we intend to continue to bring you such updates
from the standards area, the proliferation of VoiceXML
in the industry has resulted in a staggering number
of VoiceXML products and services available today, and
we aim to keep you informed of the best of them. In
addition, it's clear that VoiceXML will play an important
role in emerging multimodal standards, and we look forward
to keeping your informed on these developments as well.
This month we are focusing on on-line VoiceXML developer
studios. These days, all you need to start writing VoiceXML
applications is a computer with an Internet connection
(and maybe a phone!). This month we're featuring articles
on several on-line studios from among the best: Voice
Genie Developer Workshop (authored by Rakesh Tailor),
VoxPilot's voxBuilder (authored by Dave Burke), and
Loquendo Studio (authored by Claudia Romellini). Once
you've read these articles, be sure to go to their respective
websites and try these tools out!
At this point, some of you might be wondering what it
takes to get an article about your company's recent
VoiceXML exploits in the Forum's e-zine? To get started,
you can check out the new
2003 Editorial Calendar and
download the
author kit!
This month, our faithful First Words columnist Rob Marchand
takes us through the handling of complex recognition
results in VoiceXML. However, true to his column's moniker,
Rob manages to make sense of these rather recent changes/additions
to the 2.0 specifications without getting you lost in
the forest. By the way, Rob happens to be the e-zine's
longest standing columnist. If you are just getting
started in VoiceXML, I'd encourage you to go back through
the archives and work your way through the articles
Rob has penned over the past couple of years. Rob's
columns build quite nicely upon each other and it makes
for an excellent tutorial.
Finally,
I'd like to take a moment and remind you that the VoiceXML
Forum's Spring User Group Meeting at AVIOS 2003 is just
around the corner. If you or somebody from your company
has a live VoiceXML-related demo you'd like to give
at the UGM, please get in touch with us soon! Take a
look at the UGM Call for Participation
put together
by the Forum's Education Committee for more details
on getting involved.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Engelsma
Editor-in-Chief
VoiceXML Review
Jonathan.Engelsma@voicexmlreview.org
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