IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 16, 2009 @07:22AM 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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Re:Achilles says "No." by DragonWriter · 2009-03-16 07:40 · Score: 4, Insightful

Voice tech has an achilles heel: It's called accents. Most voice software works great for english-speaking people in the midwestern United States.
If that's true of this software developed by IBM's Indian research arm and pilot tested in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, then I suspect it will also handle a lot of other English-speaking people.

But if you have an accent
As if English-speaking people from the midwestern United States don't.