I saw a presentation at SLT'08 (http://slt2008.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=1191) about that voice web.
Contrary to what slashdot readers seem to think, this is not an extension of the current www. They want to start over with speech only (input and output). It is designed so that people who can't read can use it, and they don't need the latest smartphone, just a regular phone. URLs would be replaced by phone numbers that you would dial. Then you would be able to listen to whatever "podcast" which would give you other numbers to dial. There is a big cultural difference with the www.
They also intend to do speech-controlled basic navigation. However, they didn't give many details about the kind of technology involved, nor how to handle basic navigation problems like the equivalent of scrolling through a page or how to manage bookmarks, mark already visited sites and "download" stuff.
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Nethack, tome or privateer ascii sector, are my favorite games. You get much more imaginative with ascii art.
I saw a presentation at SLT'08 (http://slt2008.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=1191) about that voice web. Contrary to what slashdot readers seem to think, this is not an extension of the current www. They want to start over with speech only (input and output). It is designed so that people who can't read can use it, and they don't need the latest smartphone, just a regular phone. URLs would be replaced by phone numbers that you would dial. Then you would be able to listen to whatever "podcast" which would give you other numbers to dial. There is a big cultural difference with the www. They also intend to do speech-controlled basic navigation. However, they didn't give many details about the kind of technology involved, nor how to handle basic navigation problems like the equivalent of scrolling through a page or how to manage bookmarks, mark already visited sites and "download" stuff.