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May / June 2005 Features
ARTICLE ONE
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 TWO
Speaker Authentication and VoiceXML: combining technologies for next-generation interactive voice applications
By Judith Markowitz and Kenneth Rehor
Opera Software ASA recently announced that version 8.0 of its browser received over one million downloads within four days of release. The Norwegian software vendor has created a fast and standards compliant Web experience. While this news is certainly commendable for any product introduction, rivaling even Mozilla’s Firefox, it is also a milestone for the multimodal and voice standards community. Opera has included a feature that could usher in an age of human-computer interaction predicted long ago by many a science fiction writer.
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