Volume 1, Issue 11 - December 2001
   
 

Article #1

What's New in VoiceXML 2.0
By Jim A. Larson

So what's new with VoiceXML 2.0? Plenty. What was a single language, VoiceXML 1.0, has been extended into several related markup languages, each providing a useful facility for developing web-based speech applications.  These facilities are organized into the W3C Speech Interface Framework.

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Article #2

VoiceXML 2.0 from the Inside
By Dr. Scott McGlashan

With the publication in October 2001 of VoiceXML 2.0 as a W3C Working Draft, VoiceXML is finally on its way to become a W3C standard. VoiceXML 2.0 is based on VoiceXML 1.0, which was submitted to the W3C Voice Browser Working Group by the VoiceXML Forum in May 2000. In this article, we examine some of the key changes in the first public working draft of VoiceXML 2.0 as compared to the VoiceXML 1.0 specification.

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Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Engelsma bids 2001 a fond farewell by introducing the December 2001 issue.

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In this month's column, titled "So What's New?", Rob Marchand touches on some of the things that you can look for in VoiceXML 2.0, and how it impacts some of the VoiceXML tricks and tips he's introduced throughout the year.

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Our resident VoiceXML experts are off for the holidays, so we will resume our Speak & Listen column in January 2002. As always, your questions are invited.

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December 2001

Travelers in Utah have a new way to get updates on traffic, and they can do it without having to watch television or listen to the radio. Instead, using a cellular phone, they can dial the nations first voice-activated 511 travel service line. The service is powered by Tellme.
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December 2001

W3C releases the working draft of its Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition. The document covers the syntax and semantics of semantic
interpretation tags that can be added to speech recognition grammars to compute information to return to an application on the basis of
rules and tokens that were matched by the speech recognizer.
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December 2001

The speech technology industry will converge at the Telephony Voice User Interface Conference, to be held 4-6 February 2002 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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