Thursday, August 1, 2002
Speech enabled Pocket Internet Explorer next year?
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "SOFTWARE" @ 05:00 AM
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_sandlund073102.asp
Some people believe that speech-enabling mobile devices is the next critical step to dramatically increase their popularity and usage. This Technology Review article "Talk to the Hand(held)" provides an informative view on where Microsoft, Philips, Intel etc are in designing and implementing the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) which is a nescessary piece of the speech-enabling puzzle. The SALT 1.0 specification was completed on July the 15th and submitted to a standards body. If you are interested, you can download the specification. Ongoing projects aimed at implementing SALT includes Microsoft's .NET Speech software development kit, Philips JAVA-2 browser, an open source SALT browser as part of the Carnegie Mellon University's OpenSALT project and so on. In fact, the SALT Forum aims at delivering a roýalty-free and platform independant specification.
"Recent steps by software vendors indicate that progress is imminent. Microsoft has already released a beta version of its speech software developer kit that should speed the process. “It integrates with Business Studio,” says James Mastan, director of marketing for .NET speech technologies at Microsoft. “Speech development becomes drag and drop.”
The platforms to use these applications are also coming into place. Philips has a SALT-enabled browser ready. Carnegie Mellon University is preparing an open source version. Microsoft expects to release a SALT-enabled version of Pocket IE sometime in the first half of 2003."
Some people believe that speech-enabling mobile devices is the next critical step to dramatically increase their popularity and usage. This Technology Review article "Talk to the Hand(held)" provides an informative view on where Microsoft, Philips, Intel etc are in designing and implementing the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) which is a nescessary piece of the speech-enabling puzzle. The SALT 1.0 specification was completed on July the 15th and submitted to a standards body. If you are interested, you can download the specification. Ongoing projects aimed at implementing SALT includes Microsoft's .NET Speech software development kit, Philips JAVA-2 browser, an open source SALT browser as part of the Carnegie Mellon University's OpenSALT project and so on. In fact, the SALT Forum aims at delivering a roýalty-free and platform independant specification.
"Recent steps by software vendors indicate that progress is imminent. Microsoft has already released a beta version of its speech software developer kit that should speed the process. “It integrates with Business Studio,” says James Mastan, director of marketing for .NET speech technologies at Microsoft. “Speech development becomes drag and drop.”
The platforms to use these applications are also coming into place. Philips has a SALT-enabled browser ready. Carnegie Mellon University is preparing an open source version. Microsoft expects to release a SALT-enabled version of Pocket IE sometime in the first half of 2003."
