Summary of Voice Browser Working Group's March meeting

On March 4-5, the Voice Browser Working Group held a Face-to-Face meeting
in Cannes-Mandelieu, France.  VoiceXML 2.0 and SRGS have been in candidate
recommendation status for several weeks and are ready to proceed to full
recommendation.  [VoiceXML 2.0 and SRGS were made full recomendatioins on
March 16] All of the issues with the SSML last call working draft
have been resolved.  We ironed out some minor problems with the SSML
implementation report.  The Call Control subgroup reviewed the current
working draft of CCXML, resolved several issues and made several changes
to improve readability and set a goal of issuing the CCXML document next
quarter. We believe we have resolved all of the outstanding issues with
the Semantic Interpretation language, and will publish it as a last call
working draft as soon as we update the document.  We reviewed requirements
for V3, the follow-on to VoiceXML 2.0, and established a preliminary
high-level architecture.  There will be several specification documents,
including a kernel specification and one or ore dialog modules, the first
of which will be based on the present VoiceXML 2.0.  We estimate that V3
will reach final recommendation in early 2007.  Here is a more detailed
publication plan from the Voice Browser working Group:

VoiceXML 2.0 - Recommendation, March 16 2004
SRGS - Recommendation, March 16, 2004
SSML - Proposed Recommendation, 2Q04; full recommendation 3Q04
Semantic Interpretation - Last Call working draft 2Q04
CCXML - Last call working draft 2Q04
VoiceXML 2.1 working draft March 2004, Last Call working draft 2Q04
V3 Kernel working draft in 1Q05, last call working draft in 1Q06, with a
final recommendation 1Q07

Regards,

Jim Larson and Scott McGlashan
Co-chairs Voice Browser Working Group

Received on Monday, 12 April 2004 20:57:11 UTC