VoiceXML Forum Launches the VoiceXML Solutions Directory.Comprehensive Products and Services Directory Helps Customers Deploying VoiceXML-Based Business Solutions 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 SpeechTEK West, the VoiceXML Forum, a global industry organization chartered to promote and to accelerate the adoption of VoiceXML-based applications, announced the availability of the VoiceXML Solutions Directory, a comprehensive directory of VoiceXML products and services. The VoiceXML Solutions Directory helps companies interested in deploying VoiceXML-based business solutions to find the products and services they need quickly and efficiently. The VoiceXML Solutions Directory is sponsored by the VoiceXML Forum and is now available at www.vxmldirectory.com. "The VoiceXML Solutions Directory is poised to become the industry's most comprehensive directory of VoiceXML-based products and services," said Mark Randolph, newly elected chairman of the VoiceXML Forum. "Every vendor working with VoiceXML should actively participate in the VoiceXML Forum and ensure that its products and services are listed in the directory." The VoiceXML Solutions Directory currently includes more than 160 products and services offered by the VoiceXML Forum's member companies. Product categories include VoiceXML platforms, application development tools and pre-built dialog modules, and applications. Service categories include VUI (Voice User Interface) A voice-controlled application on a computer, PDA or smartphone. A VUI is more sophisticated than an interactive voice response (IVR) system. It implies a wide range of commands rather than just voicing "yes" or "no." Contrast with GUI. design and development, systems integration and solution deployment, and hosted services and solutions. Additional categories may be added to the VoiceXML Solutions Directory based on market demand. New Platforms Certified The Forum also announced that VoiceXML platform implementations from Microsoft and SandCherry were recently certified through the Forum's Platform Certification Program. Microsoft's Speech Server 2007 and SandCherry Voice Platform have been certified as compliant with the latest release of VoiceXML 2.0. Microsoft and SandCherry join Aspect, Avaya, Envox Worldwide, Genesys, Holly Connects, Intervoice, Loquendo, Nortel, Nuance nu·ance n. 1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation. 2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: , 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, Vocalocity, Voxeo, Voxpilot and West Corporation as vendors of certified platforms. To date, 20 platforms have been certified. CT Labs, an independent testing laboratory working on behalf of the Forum, conducts the testing. More information about the certified platforms can be found on the Web at http://www.voicexml.org/platform_certification/certified_ platforms.html. (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) 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 (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 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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