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Article
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The World Wide Web
Consortium's Activities in Multimodal Interaction
By
Deborah A. Dahl
Currently
interaction with the web takes place primarily with standard
web pages on desktop browsers. Newer forms of interaction, such as
voice interaction and mobile handset
applications, are also starting to become more widespread.
Multimodal interaction adds new dimensions to the experience of
interacting with web applications. It goes beyond GUI or voice-only
inputs by allowing users to interact with applications in multiple
ways, combining several modes. Eventually, input modes could include
speech, keyboard, pointing devices, and handwriting, as well as other
modes that might become popular in the future, such as gestures.
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Article
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XHTML+Voice --- Bringing Spoken Interaction To The WWW
By
T.V. Raman
XHTML+Voice
provides a set of technologies for enabling WWW developers add voice
interaction to Web content by providing access to appropriate features
of Voice XML from an XHTML context. XHTML+Voice was submitted by IBM, Opera and Motorola
to the W3C in December 2001 to help integrate visual and voice
components of the W3C standards framework in creating multimodal
user experiences. As a published document, It provides guidance
to WWW developers on how various W3C technologies --XHTML, XML
Events and Voice XML in this case-- can be used to bring spoken interaction to traditional WWW
content without the need for creating a new language for
that purpose.
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