December 2004
Dear
Readers,
As we look back over the past year, it is remarkable
to note the tremendous progress VoiceXML has made
in the industry. On the standards front, the VoiceXML
2.0 specification and its companion specs SRGS,
and SSML have all been published as recommendations
by the World Wide Web Consortium during 2004. The
CCXML and SISR specifications are expected to follow
suit in the near future. The VoiceXML Forum launched
both a platform certification program, as well
as a developer certification program. VoiceXML
has matured significantly within the past twelve
months, and is now a key enabler in thousands of
products and services around the world.
The recent
series of VoiceXML Forum sponsored webinars have
proved to be quite popular with our membership.
If you haven’t been able to attend any of these
presentations, you’ll find audio archives and
viewgraphs on demand via the Forum’s website.
For those of you studying up over the holidays for
the developer
certification exam, be sure to take a
look at Jim Larson’s recent webinar for hints
on how to prepare.
Our last issue of the VoiceXML Review in 2004 features
an article by David Pearce (Motorola) on distributed
speech recognition (DSR). David provides us with a
gentle overview of the technology and sketches out
the important it will play in delivering speech and
multimodal services to mobile devices.
Our
second feature article is authored by Christopher
Harrick and Benjamin
Lewis who recently completed internships
in IBM’s Extreme Blue program. Imagine the joy
of spending an entire summer with a team of brilliant
and creative students using VoiceXML and XHTML+Voice
to voice-enable IBM’s Deep Blue chess champ,
and Lotus Notes!
Both of
our regular columnists Rob
Marchand (VoiceGenie)
and Matt Oshry (Tellme) bring us some hands-on examples
that put the new VoiceXML 2.1 features to good use.
In First Words, Rob provides a detailed walk through
of the new utterance recording features in 2.1. Matt
Oshry utilizes the new <data> element and other
techniques to show how gaps in your pre-recorded audio
samples can be dealt with, providing for a nice seamless
experience for the end user.
Finally,
do take a moment to respond to the VoiceXML
Forum’s training survey, and let us know how
we can better serve your organization’s needs
in this area.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Engelsma
Editor-in-Chief
VoiceXML Review
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