SpeechSelfService.com - Information Links
We've gathered a list of resources that we refer to again and again and published them so that you can use them too.
Speech Recognition Resources
- Speech Technology 2008 Industry Buyer's Guide
- Speech Technology Magazine
- SpeechTekJobs
- Microsoft's Speech Products
- Speech Recognition Books
- Association for Voice Interaction Design
Industry Standards Organizations
Today, the core standard around which the development of speech recognition start is rapidly becoming VoiceXML (VXML). A number of additional standards are evolving around and extending VXML to enhance the capabilities including Speech Recognition Grammar Processor (SRGS), Speech Synthesis Markup Language Processor (SSML), Semantic Interpretation for Speech Grammars (SISR), Voice Browser Call Control (CCXML), State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. Below are the links to the most current specification for each.
- W3C Overall Voice Activity Home Page
- W3C VoiceXhttp://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/ML (VXML)
- W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
- W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS)
- W3C Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR)
- W3C Voice Browser Call Control (CVoice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0CXML)
- W3C State Chart XML State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction(SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction
- Voice XML Forum
- W3C Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements
- W3C Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0
Speech Recognition Blogs
The focus of the president's blog list is on non-desktop use of speech recognition.
- SpeechTech Magazine's Blog
- The User View - Nancy Jamison's Consulting Blog
- Terry Gold
- Confessions of a Speech Recognition Consultant
- Phil Shinn - Industrial Linguist
- Speech Recognition - News from Technology that is transforming healthcare practice
- Marshall Harrison - 'the gotspeech guy"
- ifByPhone Blog (Hosted Voice Mashups - really interesting Web 2.0 and Voice convergence)
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Customer Experience Matters - Bruce Temken's blog about
Building Loyalty Through Customer Experience, Marketing, And
Leadership
Interesting New Application & Development Tools
- Voiyager - Dynamic Automatic Application Discovery - This is a great new test tool that we first ran across last fall at Nuance's Conversations conference. It uses the VXML code from an application to discover and test all of its possible branches.
- Inference Tuner - Inference Tuner is tool designed to help developers automatically generate grammar files using learning-by-example artificial intelligence techniques. Developers can still use their existing tools to create the VoiceXML for a solution and then develop the grammar files using Tuner. Grammars (both simple and sophisticated natural language grammar files) can be generated in a fraction of the time taken by traditional techniques; and can be deployed on a wide variety of speech recognition platforms.
- NuGram Server – A runtime infrastructure (Grammar Server) to serve static grammars and generate dynamic ones.
- Tropo - An in-the-cloud development platform that lets users create and deploy speech and telephony applications using a simple API (application programming interface).
Have a suggestion to add to one of the lists? Drop me an email!
Last updated: 04/10/2009