A browser for a public-domain SpeechWeb

ABSTRACT

A SpeechWeb is a collection of hyperlinked applications, which are accessed remotely by speech browsers running on end-user devices. Links are activated through spoken commands. Despite the fact that protocols and technologies for creating and deploying speech applications have been readily available for several years, we have not seen the development of a Public-Domain SpeechWeb. In this paper, we show how freely available software and commonly used communication protocols can be used to change this situation.

REFERENCES

• 1: Richard A. Frost, Call for a public-domain SpeechWeb, Communications of the ACM, v.48 n.11, p.45-49, November 2005 [doi>10.1145/1096000.1096003]
• 2: LRRP Speech Webs, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR'04), p.91-98, May 19-21, 2004
• 3: Charles T. Hemphill , Philip R. Thrift, Surfing the Web by voice, Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia, p.215-222, November 05-09, 1995, San Francisco, California, United States [doi>10.1145/217279.215269]
• 4: Opera: http://www.opera.com/
• 5: VoiceXML Forum (2004) http://www.voicexml.org/specs/multimodal/x+v/12/

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: Architectures

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Voice I/O

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
X+V, public-domain Speechweb