While Microsoft touted the latest release of its SALT-based Speech Server at last week's SpeechTEK conference, a competing speech standard reached a milestone. The Voice Extensible Markup Language ...

TELEPHONE VOICE services for traveling professionals or for customer-service applications are becoming more and more popular. IVR (interactive voice response) is the current technology — and it works ...

VoiceXML (VXML) is a markup language like HTML. The difference is that a phone browser rather than a Web browser renders VXML. Synthesized speech or audio files create the interface between the ...

VoiceXML 2.0 now sits atop new subsidiary standards that deal with input (speech recognition) and output (text-to-speech). On the input side, The W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Format, based on Sun's ...

VoiceXML will help customers create speech-enabled Web-based content or build telephony-based speech recognition call center applications. In a nutshell, VoiceXML outlines a common language to follow ...