Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture) Working Draft Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture), which defines a general and flexible framework providing interoperability among modality-specific components from different vendors - for example, speech recognition from one vendor and handwriting recognition from another. The document as a whole has changed significantly and the group welcomes review. The main changes from the previous draft are (1) clarifying the relationship to EMMA, (2) simplifying the architecture constituents, (3) adding a description on HTTP transport of lifecycle events and (4) adding an example of handwriting recognition modality component. A diff-marked version of this document is available. Learn more about the W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity.