- From: Kathleen Anderson <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:07:55 -0400
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
** New Consortium To Give HTML A Say A group of technology leaders are collaborating to develop a new Web language that would let people input and access data on various wireless devices via speech. Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing, and SpeechWorks International have co-founded Salt Forum to create speech application language tags. Salt members intend to extend the capabilities of HTML, xHTML, and eventually XML. Doing so would allow people to combine speech with audio and visual input and output on wireless devices, says Steve Chambers, a VP at Speechworks International. By using Salt tags, the forum leaders claim, developers would be able to embed speech into existing HTML, xHTML, and XML pages without having to rewrite apps. Businesses would be able to use their existing Web investments and expertise, and they wouldn't need to create discrete speech apps. The forum founders expect to make the specification publicly available in March or April 2002. They say they'll submit it to a standards body, such as the World Wide Web Consortium or the Internet Engineering Task Force, by midyear. "This Salt initiative could be a part of the evolution in the industry to establish voice middleware and architecture to support voice as an additional point of interaction," says Meta analyst Earl Perkin. That's something longtime voiceXML proponent IBM would welcome. "IBM is frustrated because it can't get the industry to realize that voiceXML goes beyond integrating speech with the Internet," Perkins says. IBM is not included among the founding members of Salt. - Tischelle George For more information on the consortium, go to http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEnW0BoVyT0V20TM80AY Get more background on voice advances. Read Technically Speaking http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEnW0BoVyT0V20SpK0AR Oracle Adding Voice Access To Products http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEnW0BoVyT0V20Qnr0A1 Kathleen Anderson, Chair State of Connecticut CMAC Web Site Accessibility Committee email: kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us phone: (860) 702-3355 URL: http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/
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