VoiceXML Forum Expands Board of Directors; Certifies 18 VoiceXML Platform Implementations; Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories and Holly Connects Join Board as Sponsors; Forum Certifies Vail Systems and Aspect Software VoiceXML Platforms.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Today at SpeechTEK, the VoiceXML Forum, a global industry organization chartered to promote and to accelerate the adoption of VoiceXML-based applications, announced that Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., an Alcatel company, and Holly Connects have been named Sponsor Members of the VoiceXML Forum and have joined its Board of Directors. Genesys has become a Sponsor Member through its acquisition of VoiceGenie Technologies in April 2006. Holly Connects and Genesys join Sponsor Members AT&T, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Loquendo, Lucent, Motorola, Nuance, Oracle, Tellme, Verizon and West Corporation in providing strategic direction and leadership to the Forum. In addition, InfoNXX, Microsoft and Tecnomen have joined the Forum as Promoter Members. "We are pleased to welcome Genesys and Holly Connects to the Board of Directors and InfoNXX, Microsoft and Tecnomen to the VoiceXML Forum community," said Ken Rehor, chair of the VoiceXML Forum. "The decision by companies of this caliber to participate as this level demonstrates the tremendous industry support behind the Forum and the importance of VoiceXML." "Holly Connects is very pleased to be joining the VoiceXML Forum Board of Directors and to contributing to vital Forum activities," said Lance Berks, 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. and co-founder, Holly Connects. "VoiceXML continues to drive innovation and competition in the voice industry and the Forum Platform Certification Program and other activities are bringing value to customers and vendors across the market." VoiceXML Forum Certifies 18 Platforms The Forum also announced that eighteen VoiceXML platform implementations have been certified to date through the Forum's Platform Certification Program. VoiceXML platforms from Aspect Software and Vail Vail (vāl), town (1990 pop. 3,569), Eagle co., W central Colo., on Gore Creek, in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mts.; founded as a ski resort 1962, inc. as a town 1966. Systems were recently certified as compliant with the latest release of the Forum's VoiceXML 2.0 test suite, and these companies join Avaya, Edify ed·i·fy tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. , Envox Worldwide, Genesys, Holly Connects, Nortel, Nuance, Voxeo, Voxpilot and West Corporation as vendors of certified platforms. CT Labs, an independent testing laboratory working on behalf of the Forum, conducted the testing. More information about the certified platforms can be found on the Web at www.voicexml.org/platform_certification/certified_platforms.html. "Certification helps ensure cross-vendor interoperability of platforms, tools and applications, which stabilizes and matures the industry," continued Rehor. "That gives customers confidence that a wide variety of VoiceXML-certified platforms are sound speech technology investments. We are pleased to see Aspect Software and Vail Systems successfully complete their certifications." The VoiceXML Platform Certification Program test suite includes more than 600 tests that cover the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). VoiceXML 2.0 Recommendation and is based on the W3C's VoiceXML 2.0 Implementation Report. To aid vendors in preparing for certification, the Conformance Test Suite in the VoiceXML Platform Certification Program is available, at no charge, for public download from the Forum's Website at www.voicexml.org. Forum Sponsor and Promoter Members also can download a Web-based test harness In software testing, a test harness or automated test framework is a collection of software and test data configured to test a program unit by running it under varying conditions and monitor its behavior and outputs. to aid in running the tests. Companies wishing to have their platforms tested may register on the Forum's Website at www.voicexml.org or contact the Forum at voicexml-admin@voicexml.org. The VoiceXML Forum is currently working on several technical initiatives, including those related to speaker biometrics, tools and media resource control protocol (MRCP MRCP Member of Royal College of Physicians. MRCP abbr. Member of the Royal College of Physicians ). The Forum's Speaker Biometrics Committee recently published several working draft documents for member and public review, including: --Speaker Identification and Verification Requirements --Speaker Identification and Verification Introduction and Best Practices --Speaker Identification and Verification Applications --Data Exchange File Format for Speaker Identification and Verification (jointly developed with ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. ) The Speaker Biometrics Committee is seeking feedback on these documents. For more information, visit: http://www.voicexml.org/resources/biometrics.html. About the VoiceXML Forum Founded in 1999, the VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization whose mission is to promote and to accelerate the worldwide adoption of VoiceXML-based applications. To this end, the Forum serves as an educational and technical resource, a certification authority See CA. and a contributor and liaison to the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards organization A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, . The VoiceXML Forum is organized as a program of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). Membership in the Forum is open to any interested company. For more information, please visit the Website at www.voicexml.org. |
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