Volume 2, Issue 5 - July / August 2002
   
 

Article #1

The IETF Speech Services Control Working Group

By Eric Burger

Speech recognition technology has become an essential building block for a new wave of next generation enhanced services. Speech resources such as automated speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and speaker verification (SV) are becoming key features in a range of new services that help businesses manage their work force and customer base more efficiently and enable consumers to communicate in compelling new ways. We are just now seeing interesting applications where you speak to an application and it responds to you, such as automated stock trading, airline reservations, and e-mail by phone. Speech resources make these interesting and useful applications possible.

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Article #2

Update on SSML

By Daniel C. Burnett

The Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), as its name implies, provides a standardized annotation for instructing speech synthesizers on how to convert written language input into spoken language output. This language has been under development within the Voice Browser Working Group (VBWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for a few years. This article provides a brief update on the status and future of SSML. For background on SSML and an introduction to its features.

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Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Engelsma introduces the articles of the July / August issue of VoicexML Review.

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In this month's column, titled "VoiceXML Events," Rob Marchand takes a wider ranging look at events in VoiceXML. Over these many months, we've seen something about how events work, and how you can use them. In this column, we're going to gather all that information together, and fill in the gaps.

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Our new Speak & Listen columnist, Matt Oshry, answers reader questions on VoiceXML 2.0.

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August 2002

IETF announcement of the creation of the Speech Services Control Working
Group (Also Discussed in Eric Burger's paper)

August 2002

W3C Publishes Speech Recognition Grammar Specification

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