Voice Recommendations Approved for Speech-Driven Web Applications

The World Wide Web Consortium today released Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1 as a W3C Recommendation, confirming the standard for voice-driven Web applications. Used daily in millions of telephone calls, VoiceXML enables rapid development of audio dialogs. Version 2.1 extends the language with eight commonly implemented features including dynamic access to grammars and scripts. Completely interoperable, VoiceXML 2.0 applications will work under VoiceXML 2.1 without modification. VoiceXML and the Recommendation for Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 approved in April are critical pieces of W3C Speech Interface Framework. Read the testimonials and press release and visit the Voice Browser home page.