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In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in. The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They

Abstract The World Wide Web Consortium's Voice Browser Working Group is defining several markup languages for applications supporting speech input and output. These markup languages will enable speech applications across a range of hardware and software platforms. Specifically, the Working Group is designing markup languages for dialog, speech recognition grammar, speech synthesis, natural language semantics, and a collection of reusable dialog components. These markup languages make up the W3C Speech Interface Framework. The speech community is