A browser for a public-domain SpeechWeb

Abstract

A SpeechWeb is a collection of hyperlinked applications, which are accessed remotely by speech browsers running on end-user devices. Links are activated through spoken commands. Despite the fact that protocols and technologies for creating and deploying speech applications have been readily available for several years, we have not seen the development of a PublicDomain SpeechWeb. In this paper, we show how freely available software and commonly used communication protocols can be used to change this situation.

Voice2Web: Architecture for Managing Voice-Application Access to Web Resources

“…Similarly, SpeechWeb [20] is composed of a collection of hyperlinked applications, accessed remotely by speech browsers running on end-user devices. Spoken commands activate the links, using a combination of markup languages.…”

MySpeechWeb

“…The architecture and speech browser have been described in previous publications, [1] and [2]. The new work reported in this paper, to be demonstrated for the first time at the ASSETS'08 conference, includes the complete open-source implementation of the architecture, the suite of exemplar speech applications, and a web site with extensive end-user and developer documentation.…”

“…The current implementation of the LRRP architecture uses X+V scripts [1] and the freely-available Opera browser and IBM speech plug-in for end-user access.…”