Conversa Previews the Conversa Web Conversation Development Kit for Voice Powering Internet Gaming.Business Editors, High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2000 Game Developers Conference 2000 (booth No. 748) The toolkit is the first resource for game developers to add speech interaction and control Conversa will be showcasing the Conversa Web Conversation Development Kit 1.0 (CDK Cdk cyclin-dependent protein kinase. ), its developer toolkit for voice powering web sites, to the gaming community A gaming community is usually a group of like minded individuals working towards a goal (such as promoting fair play and team work) or supporting each other within games (usually online video games such as MMORPG's or FPS's) RTS(real time strategy) games are developing larger and demonstrating the changes speech can bring to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the gaming experience. The CDK enables game developers to add speech interaction to browser-based games, as well as voice communication during multi-player games. Speech-enabled Internet game demonstrations will be available at the Conversa booth No. 748 at the Computer Games Developer Conference. The toolkit is an extension of Macromedia Dreamweaver(TM) objects and behaviors, which means that developers do not need previous speech technology experience to take advantage of the functionality. For the gamer, it enhances and extends the gaming experience, utilizing continuous speech recognition technology that responds to natural speaking voices, without the need to train the system. Speech-enabled game examples can be found at www.conversations.com, which contains Conversa's conversational applications, trial downloads, partner and developer information. The Conversa Web Conversation Development Kit carries a suggested retail price of $299 and is expected to ship in Spring 2000. "Conversa is the first speech technology company to enter the Internet gaming space and we consider the `Conversational Gaming' market a major thrust for the company in the future," said Steve Rondel ron·del n. 1. A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end. 2. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Conversa. "We believe speech-driven control and interaction in the gaming market is a logical fit because it adds human communication to gaming, making it more intuitive and realistic, especially as it moves into the Internet Appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. space." As an extension to Dreamweaver 2 and 3, the toolkit makes it easy to incorporate audio and speech functions into existing Web-based games, to add new content, and to create a new generation of voice-interactive gaming. The toolkit's graphical tools are industry-standards based, and support for JavaScript, Java and server mechanisms such as PERL is built in. The toolkit also includes documentation for adding voice-interactive elements directly to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. code. Web-based games created with the CDK will need to provide a free, downloadable version of Conversa Web(TM) 3.0, Conversa's voice-enabled Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , so gamers can fully experience the conversationalized extensions and content. Specifications and Features -- Context-based voice interactions -- enhances the user experience (Internet, Intranet, Extranet). -- Macromedia Dreamweaver(TM) extensions -- easy to incorporate audio and speech functions into existing Web games or to create new games; HTML code is automatically generated using the tools dialogs. Conversa documentation also provides the developer with the choice of automatically generating scripts, hand coding or a mixture of the two. -- "Transparent" Conversa tags and meta tags -- adds voice-interactive dialogues without interfering with traditional, non-voice-enabled gaming. A single game will work with both, no need to create a separate voice-enabled game. -- JavaScript is automatically generated -- make random prompts, content specific feedback, synchronized audio/visual events. -- Seamless integration with speech engine -- no need for developers to learn speech technology or to train the speech engine to understand content. -- Advanced tools for extending dialogue -- a more human-like, easy-to-understand computer generated voice (text-to-speech). -- Conversa's Speech Engine -- offers speech recognition as well as text-to-speech (TTS). -- Compatibility with Java Applets, PERL, SQL -- flexibility that uses additional industry-standard scripting environments. Conference Details A roundtable discussion will take place at the conference to discuss the CDK on a technical level and the opportunities it creates for game developers. About Conversa Founded in 1994, Conversa (pronounced con-ver-say) develops Internet speech technology solutions that allow people to conversationally interact with computers and Internet appliances. Using natural language as the interface between people and machines, Conversa provides the tools and technology for building voice-interactive Web sites and enabling voice-driven communications and transactions. With the ability to create such "digital conversations(TM)," Conversa has laid the foundation for a new category of computing computing - computer called conversational computing. Conversa's award-winning speech products include a voice browser A voice browser is a web browser that presents an interactive voice user interface to the user. In addition, it typically provides an interface to the PSTN or a PBX. Just as a visual web browser works with HTML pages, a voice browser operates on pages that specify voice dialogues. , desktop and Web developer tools, a conversational server and custom embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. solutions. Headquartered in Redmond, Wash., Conversa has approximately 130 employees. For more information, go to Conversa's web site at www.conversa.com or call 888/487-4373. Conversa Web and digital conversations are trademarks of Conversa. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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