Speaking of Standards

We are very pleased to see today that the W3C has published CCXML (Call Control XML) as a formal “Recommendation“. Within the W3C standards process, this is the the highest level that a standard can attain and is the result of a great amount of work by a great number of people over many years. To celebrate, we have :

• issued a news release celebrating the milestone and discussing Voxeo’s involvement and our use of CCXML within our products; and
• created a CCXML Resource page where you can find links to CCXML-related tutorials, white papers, source code and more.

As the news release mentions, Voxeo’s CTO RJ Auburn has been involved with CCXML since the early days and is the chair of the CCXML working group within the W3C. Voxeo’s Dan Burnett is now the chair of the overall Voice Browser Working Group under which CCXML and VoiceXML fall. Voxeo Prophecy was the first commercial implementation of CCXML, was the first (and remains the only) engine to support 100% of the CCXML specification and pass the entire W3C test suite for CCXML, and has been licensed out by other companies looking to include CCXML inside their products and services.

We are delighted to see this formal step in the W3C standards process and look forward to seeing even more applications being built out there that use the power of CCXML!

Related posts:

1. W3C Advances CCXML (Call Control XML) to Proposed Recommendation and Asks For Final Comments
2. Welcome to “Speaking of Standards”, a Voxeo weblog about industry standards
3. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) 1.1 Approved by W3C as a Recommendation
4. Video: Interview with Dan Burnett on being named 2008 Speech Luminary as “Man of Standards”
5. W3C Voice Browser Working Group Meeting at Voxeo Office In Orlando This Week

Tags: CCXML, W3C

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