HTML5 May Help Web Pages Talk, Listen
From: IDG News Service - 09/07/2010
By: Joab Jackson
A new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) project could lead to the incorporation
of voice recognition and speech synthesis interfaces within Web pages. AT&T,
Google, Microsoft, and the Mozilla Foundation all have engineers
participating in the project. The W3C's HTML Speech Incubator Group is
studying the feasibility of developing a standard Web interface for both
speech recognition and synthesis, says group chair Dan Burnett. Such an
interface would allow browsers to read pages aloud or let users audibly fill
out Web forms. The group will issue a report in a year summarizing its
findings, but Burnett notes that developing the actual interfaces would be
overseen by the W3C's HTML Working Group. The W3C also is working on related
voice and speech technologies. For example, it recently released version 3.0
of VoiceXML, which is primarily designed for voice-driven applications, and
version 1.1 of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language, which will incorporate
Asian languages.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183841/HTML5_may_help_Web_pages_talk_listen
Links:
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/
HTML Speech Incubator Group
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/
VoiceXML 3.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100831/