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
Abstract
The W3C Voice Browser working group aims to develop specifications to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction. This document is part of a set of requirements studies for voice browsers, and provides a model architecture for processing speech within voice browsers.
Status of this document
This document describes a model architecture for speech processing in voice browsers as an aid to work on understanding requirements. Related requirement drafts are linked from the introduction. The requirements are being released as working
Introduction
The telephone was invented more than 150 years ago, and continues to be a very important means for us to communicate with each other. The Web by comparison is very recent, but has rapidly become a competing communications channel. The convergence of telecommunications and the Web is now bringing the benefits of Web technology to the telephone, enabling Web developers to create applications that can be accessed via any telephone, and allowing people to interact with these applications via speech and telephone keypads. The W3C Speech
[June 16, 2003] Updated W3C Working Draft for Call Control Extensible Markup Language (CCXML). The W3C Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated working draft specification for Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. The CCXML specification defines declarative markup designed "to provide telephony call control support for VoiceXML or other dialog systems. CCXML is an adjunct language intended to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML system. The document contains references to VoiceXML's capabilities and limitations, and provides