Article #1

The Eclipse Voice Tools Project

By Andrew Wahbe and Brent Metz

In the speech business, amazing innovation takes place every day. Much of this innovation occurs in the area of voice development tools. In addition to the novel and differentiating features that result from these advances, tools vendors must also provide a set of baseline functionality that allows them to provide customers with a complete voice tooling solution. Unfortunately, companies must spend a disproportionate amount of their development time on these common, baseline features. The result is an incredible overlap between tooling vendors on function and wasted development time creating tools which simply do not create revenue or enhance the customer experience over competitor’s offerings.

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Article #2

Speaker Authentication and VoiceXML: combining technologies for next-generation interactive voice applications

By Judith Markowitz and Kenneth Rehor

Speaker Authentication (SA) refers to speech-processing technologies that answer the question ‘Is this person likely to be who she/he claims to be?’ Because it uses features of that person’s voice to answer the question, SA is called a biometric like automatic fingerprint or face recognition. Because a claim of identity has been made, the object is to authenticate that claim.

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Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Engelsma introduces the articles of the May/June issue of VoicexML Review.

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VoiceGenie's Rob Marchand continues his gentle introduction to the new features described in the VoiceXML 2.1 specification. This month, Rob looks at adding type to the <transfer> element.

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This month Brad Porter explains how AJAX has rapidly changed how developers look at web UIs

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Speech Technology Magazine's Fifth Annual Speech Solutions Awards - VoiceXML Forum nominated for best "Speech Champion" Vote by 6 July 2005
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W3C publishes VoiceXML 2.1 Candidate Recommendation
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Voxeo Receives Communications Solutions™ Magazine’s “Product of the Year” Award
June 20, 2005
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IBM, Cisco Target Speech-Enabled Contact Centers
April 28, 2005
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Voxeo Achieves VoiceXML 2.0 Platform Certification
April 25, 2005
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Pronunciation Lexicon Specification Version 1.0 W3C Working Draft
14 February 2005
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Intel, Loquendo, ScanSoft, Tellme and Verizon Join VoiceXML Forum Board of Directors
February 22, 2005
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VoiceXML Forum Launches 2005 Webinar Series
February 22, 2005
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W3C publishes Working Darft of the Extensible Multimodal Annotation
Markup Language (EMMA)
14 December 2004
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W3C publishes the Last Call Working Draft for SISR
8 November 2004
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What You Say Is What You Get
Communications Convergence.com
8 December 2004
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W3C Voice Browser Working Group publishes the SSML Recommendation
September 7, 2004
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Look Ma Bell, No Hands! VoiceXML, X+V, and the Mobile Device.
August 3, 2004
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W3C Voice Browser Working Group publishes Last Call Working Draft of VoiceXML 2.1.
July 28, 2004
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