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Let's Fix Things: For over two decades I've been consulting in my specialist area of Communications Design: Everything from business strategy and processes, through to technology, interaction and customer experience. The thoughts here are my own, not necessarily that of my employer. Feel free to contact me about industry news, swap opinions or discuss consultancy services and customer service strategy.
Even outside of the confines of my day job, I have a passion for spotting patterns and fixing broken user and customer experiences. Even my Bumblebee project hasn't escaped - I've been using Six Sigma techniques to study and predict their behaviour patterns. ☺
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 9:34AM Tweet
What PLS did is this: With PLS it is now possible to write one lexicon document that can be used by any speech recognizer and/or any speech synthesizer that supports it. One document for all of your pronunciations, independent of your voice technology vendor. [click heading for more]
Friday, October 17, 2008 at 9:30AM Tweet
W3C published today a standard that will simplify the development of Web applications that speak and listen to users. The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0 is the newest piece of W3C's Speech Interface Framework for creating Web applications driven by voice and speech. PLS can reduce the cost of developing these applications by allowing people to share and reuse pronunciation dictionaries. In addition, PLS can make it easier to localize applications by separating pronunciation concerns from other parts of the application. [click heading for more]
XML, open standards, w3c Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:40AM Tweet
[nik's note:]
The W3C on Tuesday said the next generation of VoiceXML will include specifications for speaker verification.
"Speaker verification and identification is not only the best biometric for securing telephone transactions and communications, it can work seamlessly with speech recognition and speech synthesis in VoiceXML deployments," Ken Rehor, newly elected chairman of the VoiceXML Forum, said in a statement.
The W3C has now completed its desired requirements for VoiceXML 3.0 and expects to have a working draft of the specifications by the end of the first quarter, said James Larson, co-chair of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group.
In addition to the speaker identification requirements for VoiceXML 3.0, the W3C addressed the issue of extending its Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) functionality to certain languages including Mandarin, Japanese and Korean.[click heading for more]
XML, biometrics, security, voicexml, w3c 
