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Voice Web Intros SALT development tool kit

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(03/17/03, 01:04:32 AM EDT)

Seattle, Washington -- Voice Web Solutions, Inc. has released Voice Web Studio, a version of its speech technology tool kit for doing Web-based applications based on the the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) standard.

The Voice Web Studio product is an extension to Macromedia Dreamweaver MX that phenomenally enhances how developers create voice-enabled Web content. The new SALTed version of Voice Web Studio is designed to allow Web developers to use any scripting language to extend the reach of existing Web sites to any telephony system, wireless device or handheld while using the same Web authoring environment.

Using it and the SALT specs, developers can can create speech interfaces that mimic voice-activated telephony systems or build wireless applications that allow multimodal interaction with Web pages, graphics, Web based forms, and Flash animations.

The SALT Forum, founded by Cisco, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips and SpeechWorks, developed the SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) specification as a graceful extension to existing Web programming models and markup languages such as HTML, XHTML and XML. SALT facilitates speech interfaces that reside alongside traditional Web input/output modes such as text, audio, video and graphics.

Voice Web Studio supports .NET, J2EE and other programming languages by leveraging Dreamweaver MX, the world's most popular Web authoring tool. By adding support for the SALT specification within Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX development platform, Voice Web Studio enables Web sites to recognize speaker input, generate text-to-speech and play recorded audio.

For more on the SALT specification go to www.SaltForum.org. And for more information about this product go to the company's web site at www.VoiceWebSolutions.net.

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