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The IETF Speech Services Control Working Group
By
Eric Burger
Speech
recognition technology has become an essential building
block for a new wave of next generation enhanced services.
Speech resources such as automated speech recognition
(ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and speaker verification
(SV) are becoming key features in a range of new services
that help businesses manage their work force and customer
base more efficiently and enable consumers to communicate
in compelling new ways. We are just now seeing interesting
applications where you speak to an application and it
responds to you, such as automated stock trading, airline
reservations, and e-mail by phone. Speech resources
make these interesting and useful applications possible.
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Article
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Update on SSML
By
Daniel C. Burnett
The
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), as its name
implies, provides a standardized annotation for instructing
speech synthesizers on how to convert written language
input into spoken language output. This language has
been under development within the
Voice Browser Working Group (VBWG) of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
for a few years. This article provides a brief update
on the status and future of SSML. For background on
SSML and an introduction to its features.
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