The Longhorn speech API offers baked-in functionality for voice commands inside the operating system.

The votes have been counted. See what you chose as the Product of the Year 2003.

Once overly hyped, Voice over IP (VoIP) became as maligned as the dot-com phenomenon. But there is evidence that VoIP is seeing a resurgence of interest.

Among the three packet-switching technologies, comparison and evaluation of the best is a difficult job because each one of them is suitable in different environments and needs of a network.

The software giant keeps chugging with its speech technology initiatives, releasing the first public beta of Microsoft Speech Server, a refresh of the Speech Application SDK beta, and a new Speech Partner Program.

Learn more about where the speech movement stands today, where SALT fits into the picture, and what to look for down the road.

Using Voice Web Studio and SALT (Speech Application Language Tags), developers can support speech access to Web content through a variety of devices, including telephones, internet kiosks, desktop and tablet PCs, and PDAs.

The standards consortium unveils the latest iteration of a specification intended to bring Web-based development to interactive voice response applications.

Gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of VoiceXML in order to help you determine if VoiceXML is the right tool for your project.

Developer.com continues to expand coverage to the key topics facing developers. With this latest expansion, Developer.com adds coverage of voice. With this change, Developer.com welcomes the readers of VoiceXMLPlanet.com!

In this article, we will continue our exploration of SALT by actually walking step-by-step through the process of developing a telephony/multimodal application using SALT and the Microsoft .NET Speech SDK.

Looking for a voice related resource? Start with this list.

Hitesh Seth gives a side by side comparison of various VoiceXML tools.

Hitesh Seth continues our review of Oracle 9iAS Mobile Studio from Oracle Corporation, focusing on Menus, Forms and Customizations.

In this article, we will look at the new Microsoft .NET Speech SDK which allows for the rapid development of SALT-based multimodal/telephony applications.

In this article, we will test six VoiceXML browsers for VoiceXML 2.0 conformance to determine how compatible today's VoiceXML platforms are with each other.

This week in our Product Review section, we take a look at Oracle 9iAS Mobile Studio, a hosted multi-channel XML framework from Oracle Corporation that enables developers to build applications which target a wide range of devices and formats, including VoiceXML, WML, XHTML, cHTML and more.

This week we will focus on some of the advanced features of the Studio, including the grammar verifier, outbound calling and a number of VoiceXML extensions that Telera has made around call-control. We'll also take a brief look at AppCenter, the DeVXchange application development tool for developing dynamic VoiceXML applications. 

In this final chapter of our introduction to CCXML (the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language) series, we will develop a simple multi-party conferencing system using Perl.

In the not-too-distant future, we will begin seeing unified customer support platforms that allow companies and their customers to communicate seamlessly via the Web, telephone and wireless devices. In this article, we will learn how two evolutionary trends are creating a new generation of unified customer communication platforms.

In an increasingly mobile world, the need to add voice recognition and response systems to your Web applications becomes crucial. Our resident XML expert Michael Classen introduces you to the lingo at the heart of this transformation: VoiceXML.

Hitesh Seth reviews Telera DeVXchange, a hosted VoiceXML developer community which allows developers to develop and test VoiceXML-based applications using the combination of a browser-based interface and a mobile phone.

In Part I of our quickstart VoiceXML tutorial, we will learn how to sign-up as a Tellme.com developer and write our first interactive VoiceXML application.

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.

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