Speaking of Standards

Today the W3C’s Voice Browser Working Group released another draft of the VoiceXML3 specification. This one primarily adds a new section, 6.16, on Speaker Identification and Verification (SIV), part of what is often referred to as “voice biometrics”. If you haven’t been following the development of VoiceXML 3.0, the draft is worth a read, particularly the beginning where it talks about what the W3C is aiming to do with this new version of VoiceXML.

We’ll be writing more about VoiceXML 3 over the months ahead as the draft continues on it’s path toward becoming a specification. At a real high level, the goals the W3C has include:

• Flexibility – more powerful flow control
• Modularity and adaptability – ability to adapt to usage on everything from mobile devices to the IVR servers to network media servers
• Extensibility – ability to be extended as new technologies and communication means become available.

VXML3 will add SIV functionality, support for video and more. As you’ll note in the spec, it adds “profiles” to support different types of features and functions (to get to that “flexibility” goal).

Voxeo’s own Dan Burnett is co-editor-in-chief of the specification and has obviously been heavily involved over the past weeks and months in moving this work along. I’m hoping to get him on video soon giving more of an overview of what’s new in VXML3… stay tuned…

Related posts:

1. Fifth working draft of VoiceXML 3.0 spec now available
2. Voxeo’s VoiceObjects acquisition further promotes the open standard of VoiceXML
3. Why VoiceXML 3 is not just VoiceXML 2.2
4. W3C Biometrics Workshop — background
5. Greetings from Dan Burnett

Tags: Standards, VoiceXML, W3C

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