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W3C Labels VoiceXML 2.0 A Recommendation

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-thumbs-up dept.

rjray writes with news that yesterday "the W3C gave their official stamp of approval-- Technical Recommendation status-- to VoiceXML 2.0. Trade publications covering this include internetnews.com. The move also recognizes the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS 1.0), and combines the two together under the heading of 'Speech Interface Framework.'" Here's the W3C press release.

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  1. Some confusion in the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    While the article is talking about VXML & SRGS becoming official standards, it also talks about how speech recognition "technologies are robust enough to distinguish a person's individual accent or variation". Well, of course that has nothing whatsoever to do with the standards mentioned. It has to do with what the underlying ASR software can do.

    Similarly, just because someone wrote a spec for HTML doesn't mean that a browser capable of rendering it existed.