VoiceXML
Forum Endorses Advancement of VoiceXML 2.0 Specification
to Proposed Recommendation
Announces Availability of X+V 1.2 as Multimodal
Solution of Choice
Forum Acts as Official Steward of X+V Specification
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., Feb. 3, 2004 - The VoiceXML Forum today
announced its support for the
World Wide Web Consortium’s
(W3C’s) release of Voice Extensible Markup
Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation.
VoiceXML 2.0 has advanced to the Proposed Recommendation
stage, and is therefore one small step away from
becoming an official W3C standard. The Forum also
announced today the availability of the
X+V (XHTML+Voice
Profile) specification, version 1.2. The newest
version of this multimodal interface specification
is now available for download on the VoiceXML
Forum’s website at
www.voicexml.org.
"The VoiceXML Forum is pleased that VoiceXML 2.0
has reached Proposed Recommendation status,”
said Igor Jablokov, Chairman of the VoiceXML Forum
and Program Director, Multimodal and Voice Portal
Products, IBM. “VoiceXML has become the
dominant standard in enabling speech interaction
across a diverse set of applications, industries
and end-users. VoiceXML is a strategic part of
the portfolios of many of our member companies,
with industry support increasing, in large part
due to the W3C's work in championing open standards.
The Forum looks forward to continuing its work
alongside the W3C to promote VoiceXML as the technology
standard essential to making Internet content
and information accessible via voice and phone.”
X+V:
the Multimodal Solution of Choice
For multimodal speech applications, X+V is becoming
the multimodal solution of choice for developers,
vendors and the industry at large. X+V brings
spoken interaction to standard Web content by
integrating a set of mature Web technologies such
as XHTML and XML Events with VoiceXML and XML
grammars developed as part of the W3C Speech Interface
Framework. X+V brings together voice modules that
support speech synthesis, speech dialogs, command
and control, speech grammars and event model reuse.
The newest version of X+V has been updated to
complement the W3C’s VoiceXML 2.0 specification.
Companies such as
ACCESS Co., Ltd.,
IBM Corp.,
Kirusa, Inc.,
Motorola, Inc.,
NewportWorks, Inc.,
Openstream Inc.,
Opera Software ASA,
Real Soft, Inc. and
V-Enable Inc. have demonstrated recent
interest in X+V.
“As
wireless technologies and pervasive computing
enable access to data in multiple form factors,
the use of X+V will become a catalyst for growth
of the speech industry,” said James Ferrans,
Chairman of the VoiceXML Forum’s Technical
Council and Distinguished Member of the Technical
Staff, Motorola Labs. “The Forum is now
the official steward of the X+V specification.
We will work closely with the membership of the
W3C Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser Working
Groups to continue to evolve this specification.”
About
the VoiceXML Forum
The VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization
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 more than 380
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, (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 please
visit www.voicexml.org
or contact the VoiceXML Forum Administrative Team at +1 732 465 6464 or
via e-mail at voicexml-admin@voicexml.org.
The VoiceXML Forum is organized as a program of
the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
(IEEE-ISTO).
For media inquiries please contact:
Christian DeNike
Prequent Inc. (for the VoiceXML Forum)
christian@prequent.com
+1 408 307 1236
For all inquiries please contact:
Cindy Tiritilli
Program Manager, VoiceXML Forum
c/o IEEE-ISTO
cindy@ieee-isto.org
+ 1 732 465 6464
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