First of all

Thank you very much for coming to Menlo Park and participating in this workshop!

What's W3C?

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

An international consortium

Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Mission

The creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web.

Members

Over 400 organizations from all over the the world

Constituents: W3C Member & W3C Team

W3C Member

• An organization provides resources to W3C's mission of leading the Web to its full potential
• Holds one Advisory Committee representative (AC rep) and Working Group participants
• More than 400 organizations around the world

W3C Team

• W3C paid staff, unpaid interns and W3C Fellows
• Organizes W3C Activities + communicates with the Members and the public
• 64 people from three hosts: MIT, ERCIM and Keio

W3C Hosts

Three organizations jointly run the W3C

MIT in US

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)

ERCIM in France

• The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

Keio in Japan

• Keio University

W3C Offices

W3C's partners

• local contact point of W3C in each country
• make sure that W3C and its specifications are known in their region

Information about individual Offices

• Australia
• Benelux
• Brazil
• China
• Finland
• Germany and Austria
• Greece
• Hungary
• Israel
• Italy
• Korea
• Morocco
• Southern Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom and Ireland

Why standard? : ex. Dry battery

Compatibility & Interoperability

• Available anywhere & anytime

Why standard? : Web as well :)

The Web is World Wide

should be available anywhere, anytime by anybody using any device (One Web)

• Open & Patent free
• Global & Universal
• Implementable

W3C Recommendation Track

Working Groups

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Constituents of Working Group

• Chair: manages meetings and publication schedule (W3C Member)
• Team Contact: supports Working Group's activity (Team staff)
• Invited Expert: specialists who have great expertise on the spec

Voice Browser

Integration of Web & speech

• Accessing the Web using speech via telephone
• Allowing people to interact with various Web application
• Speech and telephone keypads as input

Speech Interface Framework & VoiceXML 3.0

A suite of markup specifications aimed at realizing Voice Brwosers
→ VoiceXML 3.0 is the core of the framework.

Voice Browser Working Group

Participants

• 77 people — 72 Participants from 23 Organizations & 5 Invited Experts

Ongoing specifications

• VoiceXML 3.0 yes, of course :)
• SCXML
• SSML 1.1
• CCXML 1.0

Recommendations already published

• VoiceXML 2.0 / VoiceXML 2.1
• SRGS 1.0
• SISR 1.0
• SSML 1.0
• PLS 1.0

Meetings

• Telephone conferences: 6 slots / week
• Face-to-Face Meeting: 2-3 times / year

Information sharing

• Mailing lists: Public & Internal
• Web pages: Public & Internal

Face-to-Face Meeting

Purpose of this workshop

Making SIV in VoiceXML 3.0 more useful in current and emerging markets

Note on WG's activity: Patent policy

Any "Normative technology"

• must be provided based on Royalty-Free lisence
• when it's published as W3C Recommendation.

Royalty-Free license commitment

• required to become a Working Group Participant

Please join us!

How to join W3C

1. First of all please become a W3C Member
2. And then please register with Working Groups

Membership benefits

• Can add your own requirements to W3C specifications
• Can start conforming inprementation much earlier than the others
• Can get good publicity for your organization/company

Please contact me: ashimura@w3.org

More information

These slides are available at

• http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0305-w3c-vb-ka/

And some more

• Voice Browser Working Group public page
• Voice Browser Working Group Activity Statement
• W3C Mission
• Membership Benefits
• How to become a W3C Member
• Membership fee calculator