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IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dr-spaetzo-gets-a-job dept.

ProgramErgoSum writes to tell us that IBM's Indian-based research arm is trying to bring a new dimension to web interaction through voice interaction on your mobile phone. Developing a new protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), the hope is to allow users to talk to the web and get a response. Without more explanation I'm hoping this goes about as far as the gopher web. "The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice and the response the company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and the kind of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling, Gupta said. "

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  1. Dr. Doolittle claims prior art . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Talk to the animals? Talk to the Web? Same difference.

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  2. I wonder by rootnl · · Score: 5, Funny

    User: fap fap fap fap fap
    Web: Oh Yea baby!
    User: fap fap fap fap fap
    Web: Wow that's it yea!

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  3. Is this gonna be like CB radio? by Gizzmonic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Breaker breaker, good buddy! Thanks for visiting my online speakin' site! My handle is: The Delta Lady! If ya'll wanna visit my cousin Watts' site, just say "bacon." If'n'ya wanna hear a special Christmas story about varmints pullin' Santa's sleigh, say "Merry Chris'mas, ya'll!"

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  4. Re:NO by revlayle · · Score: 2, Funny

    NOTE TO SELF: code future IVR system to respond to "*6", instead, for operator requests.

  5. Re:Interesting... by Deag · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah easy, blink would be said extremely quickly, whole sentence in one second. Marquee would be a loud street salesman sort of tone.

  6. Re:Interesting... by CarpetShark · · Score: 2, Funny

    text to speech is very machine like and monotonous, it could do with some tags like <scared> or <angry> to get some emotion going.

    I believe the tag names, respectively, are going to be <enron> and <balmer>