As with HTML, a more fully developed VoiceXML specification serves to make the language more functional and more portable, by reducing developers' need to code their own versions of such things as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many interactive voice response applications that let users listen to computers and respond by pressing the buttons on touchtone phones. However, callers often get lost traversing long, time ...

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 ...

HTML’s ability to describe layouts and pages was a major factor in the rise of the World Wide Web. But HTML has a fundamental flaw: It assumes a graphical output display on a computer. Five or 10 ...

The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 specification has been granted Proposed Recommendation status by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and is therefore only one step away from ...

Joe Youngblood asked Google on Twitter if Google would "honor VoiceXML in the near future to help match voice searches with website content." Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter basically ...

The race is on to give the Web a voice. A budding standard, the brainchild of tech giants AT&T, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Motorola, is fueling new software that allows people to use voice commands ...

IVR and VoIP provider Voxeo has acquired Motorola’s VoiceXML browser business, including full rights to Motorola’s “VoxGateway” VoiceXML browser, for an undisclosed amount. VoiceXML is an XML ...

Speech recognition received some notice of its own on Tuesday when the W3C gave VoiceXML Version 2.0 its coveted “recommendation” status. The W3C also gave the same seal of approval to the Speech ...