Paul Krill
Editor at Large

W3C completes two voice standards

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Jun 19, 20071 min

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on Tuesday completion of two standards for voice-driven Web applications.

VoiceXML 2.1 standardizes practices that aid in voice VoiceXML interoperability and gives developers clarity in developing new features, W3C said. It uses the VoiceXML 2.0 dialog language to include commonly implemented features such as dynamic references to grammars and scripts, detection of when a user barges in during a prompt and processing multiple sets of data from the server in a single access. VoiceXML 2.0 applications will work under version 2.1 without modification.

The other standard, Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0, improves the voice-to-markup conversion for better performance in voice recognition systems. It enables developers to extract and translate textual representations of words recognized by a speech recognition system and structure results into a format convenient for processing by the speech application.

The W3C Voice Browser Working Group, featuring representatives from organizations such as HP, IBM and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed work on both standards. Both standards are part of the W3C Speech Interface Framework, which is still in development.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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