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Subject: [emergency] RE: For those of you interested in broadcast andvoiceXML


Title: [emergency] RE: For those of you interested in broadcast a
Thanks for the posting, Carl,

I am forwarding it to the wsrp-markup subcommittee since it is relevant there, too. I will be checking this out in the next days/week. Without going into details, it appears that while it is debatable as to whether there is justice in the world, there sure as bleep is some irony. Sorry to be so cryptic, but the joke's definitely on me so I will avoid rubbing my own nose in it.

Thanks, again,
Rex

At 11:07 AM -0700 10/29/03, Carl Reed wrote:
PublicVoiceXML- European radio stations evaluating VoiceXML
PublicVoiceXML (www.publicVoiceXML.org) is both, the name of a VoiceXML 2.0 compliant browser and the name of a trial project with European community radio stations, who are evaluating VoiceXML technology for their day-to-day business. VoiceXML is a browser for users, who call an interactive service via a (mobile) phone. It follows the W3C VoiceXML specifications, which are supported by the VoiceXML forum, an organisation, which has been set up by IEEE. Standardisation efforts have been now taken over by W3C in the Voice Browser Working group.
The project consortium consists of:
· PUBLIC VOICE Lab as the project initiator and co-ordinator together with
TEAM TEICHENBERG, both located in Vienna
· a software team in Chandigarh, India
· MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, also hosting the W3C office for Eastern Europe
· Vienna's community radio station Orange 94.0, who has contributed to the user requirements phase and has been integrating PublicVoiceXML into their content management and remote journalists management system.
PublicVoiceXML is designed to be used by SMEs, and it works nicely on low cost telephony hardware. The protocol handling is making use of ISDN-CAPI, which works fine e.g. with the ISDN B1 active card from AVM. Analogue lines are currently not supported, as too many country/telco specific cases for DDI or disconnect handling would need to be taken into account. The VoiceXML browser is written in C++ and comes with a lot of comment lines (explaining each function) and nice logging features.PublicVoiceXML supports all "must-have" tags of the VoiceXML 2.0 specs (speech recognition is not yet implemented). A pre-release running on Windows platforms has been published on SourceForge in Dec. 2002 and a Linux version was made available recently (https://sourceforge.net/projects/publicvoicexml/).
The consortium has performed the W3C implementation report test (http://www.w3.org/Voice/2003/ir/voicexml20-ir.html) and is using the results for further improvements. Most of the trial applications were built on a basic framework developed within the project. This framework uses PHP as a middleware, the Postgres database (through the PEAR database abstraction layer), and the Smarty template engine for the generation of HTML and VoiceXML pages. This results in clean PHP code, and the separation of presentation from business logic. HTML templates can be edited by designers (not necessarily having programming skills), and VoiceXML scripts can be fine-tuned without touching the PHP code.
Trials at community radio stations have been carried out and are well documented on the project web site. Embedding basic speech recognition is already scheduled and there is provision for telco-grade HW to be supported in Software & Service Technologies – Issue no. 4, October 2003, page 4 the near future. Exploitation of the project results will be effected through providing support for customisation, integration and double licensing to telecommunication companies.
 


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