VoiceXML Forum Launches 2005 Webinar Series.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Today, at the SpeechTEK West 2005 Conference and Exposition, the VoiceXML Forum announced its second annual series of Virtual Brown Bag Webinars. Each educational Webinar covers a topic of interest to developers, program managers and others working with VoiceXML. Beginning in April, Webinars will be held on the first Tuesday First Tuesday is a networking forum for technology entrepreneurs, companies seeking venture capital, investors and related service providers. Founded in 1998, First Tuesday now has 38,000 members and the 10 branches across Europe host meetings on the first Tuesday every month. of every month at 1:00 p.m. EST. The first Webinar in the 2005 series will be an encore presentation of "An Introduction to VoiceXML, Part 1" on April 5, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. EST. Other topics to be addressed in this year's Webinar series include test preparation for the VoiceXML Forum's Developer Certification Program; the VoiceXML Forum's Platform Certification Program; and designing, developing and testing voice applications. Tutorials on advanced technical topics such as semantic interpretation This is an important component in dialog systems. It is related to natural language understanding, but mostly its refers to the last stage of understanding. The goal of interpretation is binding the user utterance to concept, or something the system can understand. , Call Control XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (CCXML CCXML Call Control Extensible Markup Language CCXML Call Control Xml Interpreter ) and XHTML+Voice (X+V) will also be offered throughout the year. "This series makes concise and thoughtful instruction by respected experts available to a wide audience, which is a principal goal of the VoiceXML Forum and especially the Education Committee," said Jonathan Engelsma, Chair of the VoiceXML Forum Education Committee. "The 2004 Webinar series was well attended and highly regarded, and this year, as VoiceXML's popularity continues to increase, we're hoping to take it to the next level." All of the Webinars are available at no charge to members of the VoiceXML Forum. In addition, the general public will have access to view select Webinars also at no charge. More information, including Webinar registration instructions, session dates, times and abstracts may be found on the Web at www.voicexml.org/webinars. 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 and a contributor and liaison to the Worldwide Web Consortium (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). ) and other standards organization. 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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