Standard Completed for Voice-Activated Browsing

By Sushuma March 10, 2000 11:26 AM

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(IDG)-The effort to provide voice-activated equivalents to Web hyperlinks this week took a step forward, as the VoiceXML Forum announced it has completed Version 1.0 of its specification.?Last year, Lucent, IBM, Motorola and AT&T created the VoiceXML Forum.?The forum is tasked with creating a high-level programming interface to speech and telephony resources for application developers, service providers and equipment manufacturers.?At the Computer Telephony Expo in Los Angeles, the forum members said the group had finished the VoiceXML specification and will now contribute it to the World Wide Web Consortium.?IBM officials at the show demonstrated the use of VoiceXML with its ViaVoice speech-recognition technology that enables users to speak equivalents of hyperlinks.?They said properly trained end users would find this faster than wading through several layers of interactive voice response (IVR) prompts on a telephone keypad, and noted that the technology could enable hands-free operation in environments such as cars with cellular phones.?More...

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