The World Wide Web Consortium Voice Browser working group is developing revolutionary markup languages similar to HTML

April 13, 2002 8:42 AM

The World Wide Web Consortium Voice Browser working group is developing revolutionary markup languages similar to HTML that, instead of focusing on a visual interface, will cover dialog, speech synthesis, speech recognition, call control and other aspects of interactive voice response applications. "This will allow any telephone to be used to access appropriately designed Web-based services, and will be a boon to people with visual impairments or needing Web access while keeping theirs hands & eyes free for other things. " (via: Internet Scout Report)
posted by peacay (3 comments total)

VXML has been around for a while now. The TellMe phone service uses it. There was even an 0sil8 episode using it a while back. Voice browsers can also be controlled via CSS markup.
posted by riffola at 9:16 AM on April 13, 2002

"revolutionary"?? Been waiting on this for awhile. Have CSS ready to go, just have to paste it in my style sheets.
posted by bjgeiger at 9:53 AM on April 13, 2002

Oh wonderful. I have always wanted to be able to talk to machines.
posted by Settle at 12:14 PM on April 13, 2002