This document introduces VoiceXML, the Voice Extensible Markup Language. Its goal is to elicit feedback from the wider community, and thus is a language description, not a formal specification.

The VoiceXML Forum today announced its support for the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) release of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation.

Should you choose the high-level VoiceXML or low-level SALT language? Find out how to make this decision by examining the nature of the application and the skill of the programmer.

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 Open VXI VoiceXML interpreter is a portable open source library that interprets the VoiceXML dialog markup language. It is designed to serve as a reference for parties interested in understanding how VoiceXML markup might be executed.

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.

In this monthly column, an industry expert will answer common questions about VoiceXML and related technologies. Readers are encouraged to submit questions about VoiceXML, including development, voice-user interface design, and speech technology in general, or how VoiceXML is being used commercially in the marketplace. If you have a question about VoiceXML, e-mail it to speak.and.listen@voicexmlreview.org and be sure to read future issues of VoiceXML Review for the answer.

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.

In Part II of our introduction to VoiceXML 2.0 grammars, we will learn how to use tokens, rules and operators to create grammars that match natural utterances.

This article provides an overview of VoiceXML and the VoiceXML help tag. It also includes some resources so you can learn more about VoiceXML.

An area where we have an opportunity to make VoiceXML easier to use and more portable is in development and runtime tools. VoiceXML provides two significant advantages in authoring speech-enabled applications, when compared to previous methods. It allows a developer to build speech services with less effort and it allows applications written for one speech platform to run on another speech platform. These advantages are diminished, however, if software tools used to create and support VoiceXML code are inadequate or incompatible.

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.

This article introduces Elvira (http://gin2.itek.norut.no/elvira/) - a VoiceXML platform focused on the specific needs of researchers. Elvira can be used for quick arrangements of sophisticated research environments and allows a quick design of a dialogue system, making it possible to concentrate on the scientific problem itself.

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.