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VoiceXML

Partial implementation of the VoiceXML specification, an emerging standard essential to making Internet content and information accessible via voice and phone.


Date Posted: October 1, 1999
Overview

VoiceXML has graduated!

On October 24, 2000, IBM made available for free downloading the U.S. English version of the IBM WebSphere Voice Server SDK, which is based on the VoiceXML Version 1.0 language specification.

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If you're interested in creating speech-enabled applications and testing them on a desktop workstation before deploying them in a telephony environment, please see Voice Server SDK. Versions for several languages are available.

Also, if you're interested in a technology that demonstrates how VoiceXML can be used to provide voice interfaces on traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platforms, please see VoiceXML for IBM DirectTalk.


About the technology author(s):
Bruce Lucas completed his Ph.D. in Computer Vision at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) in 1984, and then he worked for two years at CMU on the Andrew windowing system. He joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 1986 and worked on a variety of computer graphics projects. Dr. Lucas was a principal designer and developer for IBM's Data Explorer, a scientific visualization system. He joined the speech group in 1995, working on grammar development tools. For the past two years, Dr. Lucas has worked closely with Sun on the design of the Java Speech API and on IBM's implementation of it. He was the lead designer and developer for IBM's Speech Mark-up Language and VoiceXML browsers, and he is IBM's representative to the VoiceXML Forum and the W3C Voice Browser working group.

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For platform(s):
Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98

For topics:
Speech Recognition


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