What XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has done for Web services, xHMI (eXtensible Human Machine Interface) carries into the domain of multi-channel interactivity. Its mission is to allow developers, IT professionals and internal staff to use familiar tools for application development, design, testing and deployment.
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Integrated Development Environments: Pure-plays Rock the Boat
Multichannel, conversational access to self-service resources favors standards-based service creation tools that provide well-behaved Java components that augment existing native application servers and Web servers. This holds true for both the enterprise and service provider markets.
Microsoft Speech Server win at lottery giant GTECH
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Verisign’s Push-To-Talk Voice Portal
Verisign Inc. demonstrated a flavor of push-to-talk (PTT) services that integrates IM-like call initiation with its content management services; thus providing single-button access to popular voice information services like news, weather or stock quotes.
Toshiba’s IP-PBX Debuts with Host Media Processing
When the Strata CIX from Toshiba rolls out in the next month, it brings to market an IP-PBX and attendant phones, a software-based media application server and application development tools to address the needs of medium-sized enterprises.
ASP Best Practices for Speech: Edition 1.0
Through a series of executive surveys and interviews, backed by intensive research and analysis of product industry news, product literature and sales collateral, Opus Research has compiled descriptions of “best practices†of Voice Application Service Providers (Voice ASPs) according to five “Psâ€: Price, Promotion, Product/Packaging, Positioning/Placement and Personnel.
Service-Oriented Architecture Takes Center Stage at SpeechTEK
Architecture and componentry have replaced accuracy and intelligibility as engines for the growth of speech-enablement. The course is defined by self-service environments and the baton has passed from core technology providers to integrators, tools providers, ISVs and middleware makers that facilitate conversational access.
Foundation of Conversational Access Technologies
Changes in enterprise computing and communications architectures are underway that will have as profound an effect on the spending patterns and computing methodologies as last century’s move from monolithic mainframe computing to the client-server model.