VoiceXML Forum Strongly
Endorses W3C's Release
of VoiceXML 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation
Announces 3rd Annual Users' Group Meeting at AVIOS 2003
San
Diego, CA - 4 February 2003 -- In
conjunction with this week's TMA Telephony Voice
User Interface Conference (TVUI), the VoiceXML
Forum proudly announces its strong support for
the W3C's release last week of VoiceXML 2.0 as
a Candidate Recommendation. The Forum sees VoiceXML
2.0 as a stable standard for creating voice applications,
providing a key building block for enabling multimodal
interaction on the World Wide Web.
"With the W3C's announcement last week, there
is clear, industry-wide momentum behind VoiceXML
2.0, as the dominant language for deploying open-standards
voice applications," says Eric Jackson of
VoiceGenie, chair of the VoiceXML Forum's Marketing
Committee. "The VoiceXML Forum is excited
to strongly support this further evidence of the
maturity of VoiceXML. Today, millions of calls
around the world are answered by VoiceXML-based
infrastructure. Over the next year, we expect
further adoption of VoiceXML compared to legacy,
proprietary-based IVR systems."
The
VoiceXML Forum also announces that it will again
use the annual AVIOS show as the venue for its
third Users' Group Meeting (UGM). This year's
UGM, set for 3 April 2003 in San Jose, will also
enable the Forum to launch several of its key
work items for 2003. The one-day UGM, intended
for everyone from developers to senior-level business
executives, is the industry's premiere event describing
the business and technical benefits of deploying
VoiceXML-based applications. Attendees will be
able to learn about the latest trends through
real-life case studies of voice and touch-tone
based services; multimodal applications; usability
design and testing; implementation testing; and
developer certification, among other key topics.
Interested The agenda and secure online registration
form are available at
http://www.avios.com/conference.htm.
"While
our past UGM's have been successful, featuring
presentations and panel discussions by key technologists
and business leaders from the VoiceXML industry,
we're anticipating this to be our best session
yet," says Jonathan Engelsma of Motorola,
chair of the VoiceXML Forum's Education Committee.
"With the recent release of VoiceXML 2.0
as a candidate recommendation by the W3C, the
speech technology industry is truly energized.
The UGM will provide a firsthand perspective on
what is happening within the VoiceXML community,
and provide ample opportunity to meet and mingle
with people who are making it happen."
The
VoiceXML Forum, driving forward several key initiatives
in 2003, will use its April UGM to share its current
work with the industry. Among those initiatives
are a VoiceXML developer certification program,
a VoiceXML conformance test suite, and a platform
certification program. The VoiceXML 2.0 Candidate
Recommendation and the accompanying Implementation
Report Test Suite provide a solid base for interoperability
of applications, platforms and tools.
The
VoiceXML Forum's Conformance Committee is building
upon the W3C VoiceXML Implementation Report Test
Suite to create a full conformance test suite,
and an associated testing program, that provide
a basis for vendor interoperability and, more
importantly, application portability. Application
portability improves the attractiveness of the
language to those who buy equipment and to those
who develop applications. The Forum's test suite
will be expanded to include related W3C technologies
such as the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification,
and the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
All
parties are encouraged to join the Forum's public
conformance discussion group, available at
www.voicexml.org.
VoiceXML Forum members contribute directly to
the development of the test suite through the
Conformance Committee.
About the VoiceXML Forum
The VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization that formed to create and
promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML). With the backing
and contributions of its diverse membership, including key industry leaders,
since its inception the VoiceXML Forum has successfully driven market
acceptance of VoiceXML through a wide array of speech-enabled applications.
Currently the Forum has over 360 member companies, distributed across three
membership categories (Sponsor, Promoter and Supporter). Membership in the
Forum is open to any interested company.
The core activities of the VoiceXML Forum are driven by its
four active committees: Education, Marketing, Tools and
Conformance. The Forum publishes VoiceXML Review
(http://www.voicexmlreview.org), an electronic
magazine dedicated to VoiceXML, featuring insightful
articles written by industry experts. Its public website
(www.voicexml.org) is a rich, one-stop source for information
about VoiceXML and related technologies.
For more information about the VoiceXML Forum or the upcoming
Users Group Meeting, please visit www.voicexml.org or contact the
VoiceXML Forum Administrative Team at +1 732 465 6464 or
voicexml-admin@voicexml.org. The VoiceXML Forum is organized as a
program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
(IEEE-ISTO).
For all inquiries please contact:
Greg Kohn
Program Manager, VoiceXML Forum
c/o IEEE-ISTO
greg.kohn@ieee-isto.org
+ 1 732 465 6464
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