IBM Testing Voice-based Web
From: PC World - 09/11/2008
By: John Ribeiro

IBM is testing a voice-based web to make information accessible to users who
may not be able to read or write, or who do not have access to the Internet. 

A "Spoken Web" project, currently being piloted by IBM's India Research
Laboratory (IRL), aims to take advantage of the rapid proliferation of mobile
phones in emerging countries like India. 

The Spoken Web technology will enable local communities to create and
disseminate locally relevant content, and interact with e-commerce sites
using the spoken word over the telephone instead of the written word, Guruduth
Banavar said. 

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Links:
Spoken Web
http://www.spoken-web.com/

VoiceSites
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/pyrmeait.tech.html

The World Wide Telecom Web
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/arun_kumar.WWTW.html

Guruduth Banavar
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/banavar.index.html

India Research Laboratory
http://www.research.ibm.com/irl/