Article #1

Enabling Speech & Multimodal Services on Mobile Devices

By David Pearce

The desire for improved user interfaces for distributed speech and multimodal services on mobile devices has motivated the need for reliable recognition performance over mobile channels. Performance needs to be robust both to background noise and to any errors introduced by the mobile transmission channel. There has been much work in the telecommunications standards bodies of ETSI and 3GPP to develop standards to achieve this and enable interoperable services of high performance. This paper provides an overview of the latest Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) standards that will be used to support mobile speech services.

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Article #2

IBM's Extreme Blue program

By Christopher Harrick and Benjamin Lewis

Extreme Blue, IBM's highly competitive internship program, combines top undergraduate technical and graduate business talent to commercialize emerging technologies from IBM's internal portfolios. Student teams work for twelve weeks in an intense incubator-like environment to create business plans and prototypes that are then showcased to IBM's senior executives, business partners, and clients. The Extreme Blue teams, located in various labs throughout the world, are run like mini-businesses and must solve real customer problems to be successful. The interns work in small project teams that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors comprised of senior staff from various disciplines and divisions. This combination creates a powerful team dynamic that fosters open collaboration and enables the students to address all aspects of the eventual solution. Their innovations extend well beyond the eventual deliverables as the teams create a variety of new tools and product offerings for various groups within IBM.

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Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Engelsma introduces the articles of the November/December issue of VoicexML Review.

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Rob Marchand provides a detailed walk through of the new utterance recording features in 2.1

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This month 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.

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