This article introduces the voice services industry, potential voice applications, and VoiceXML architecture. According to the Kelsey Group estimates, there is a huge market opportunity in voice applications. VoiceXML is the right standard that enables developers to take advantage of that market opportunity. It enables rapid development, ensures the portability and leverages existing Internet infrastructure, making it compelling for developers to adapt VoiceXML to create voice applications.

Convedia announced that it has added native VoiceXML 2.0 support to its family of media servers. The ability to control Convedia's media servers using VoiceXML 2.0 provides telecommunication service providers and third party application developers with the first truly scalable and carrier class VoiceXML platform for the creation and delivery of innovative new voice services.

Continuing from Part I of our comprehensive series of VoiceXML tutorials, in Part II we will develop a simple, but fully dynamic VoiceXML application in Perl for the Tellme.com voice portal.

The VoiceXML Forum today launched the inaugural issue of its e-zine, VoiceXML Review. Developed by the Forum’s Education Committee, the publication will serve as an educational vehicle for the VoiceXML community, and provide a mechanism for the Forum to promote its initiatives. The Forum anticipates the e-zine will foster growth and maturation in VoiceXML technology by educating the speech recognition community and attracting new participants.

This document is useful for beginning and intermediate VoiceXML developers. First, we'll introduce the basic VoiceXML principles by creating a simple example application. Then, we'll take a closer look at a number of important features within the VoiceXML language.

Last week, I talked about how XHTML Basic is becoming the new standard for handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. But what if you could convert an existing XHTML document into another markup language that turned it into speech?

VoiceXML is a thriving, open standard that makes it possible for businesses to unify their Web and IVR infrastructure, consolidate investments, and deliver a seamless experience to their customers.

Take a look at the Implementation Report of VoiceXML 2.0.

TikiWiki can be used to enhance your web site with an innovative voice service.

As an open standard programming language VoiceXML overcomes the problems traditionally associated with complex proprietary IVR solutions. It also enables developers to utilise existing web development tools. Crucially this minimises integration costs for enterprises and enables them to leverage existing technology investments.

The VoiceXML Forum announced that it has expanded its Board of Directors and elected new officers. Representatives from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN), VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and West Corporation (Nasdaq: WSTC) will join AT&T (NYSE: T), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU) and Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) as sponsors and will join the Board of Directors to provide overall strategic direction and leadership.

VoiceXML, an XML vocabulary for specifying IVR (Integrated Voice Response) Systems was submitted to the W3C more than one year ago. Initially it received little attention but now with more services like Tellme and BeVocal providing developer platforms for such applications the interest level has risen dramatically in the last couple of months.

Welcome to Telera DeVXchange, a community dedicated to VoiceXML. Here you will find all the resources and tools you will ever need to quickly and easily build phone-based business applications, such as personalized self-service.

This is X+V 1.1 ---an update to XHTML+Voice ---commonly refered to as X+V. This version of X+V has been updated to match Voice XML 2.0 (W3C Candidate Recommendation). X+V 1.1 also contains numerous updates and fixes based on over 2 years of implementation experience from IBM, Opera and other X+V partners.

BeVocal, a provider of managed VoiceXML call automation solutions to enterprises and service providers, announced availability of a streamlined "Hosting Lite" service for companies interested in small-scale deployments of voice-enabled applications.

Note that the stylesheet is designed to produce a single VoiceXML document containing just one user's data. So, its top-level template only matches documents where the top-level attribute export_type is set to single. The indent attribute on the <:xsl:output>: tag will produce a well-formatted result document that will be easier for a human brain to examine.

An emerging, XML-based standard for speech-enabled applications. It defines how a dialog is constructed and executed between a caller and a computer running speech recognition and/or text-to-speech software.

VoiceXML is the next-generation speech-application development language that supports voice dialogs without requiring a developer to manage the speech engines or the telephone call control. VoiceXML, the Voice Extensible Markup Language, is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF/telephone keypad input, and the recording of spoken input. Its major goal is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response (IVR) applications.

The VoiceXML Forum will sponsor a Users Group Meeting (UGM) on 31 October 2002 at the 8th Annual SpeechTEK International Expo and Educational Conference in New York City that will provide an interactive forum to share and discuss critical information related to VoiceXML applications and implementations. The meeting will take place between noon and 5:30 pm.

We are proud to continue our heritage of providing the leading developer site for VoiceXML by announcing our complete implementation of VoiceXML 2.0. Today, just by adding version="2.0" to your applications, you can begin to write applications conforming entirely to VoiceXML 2.0.