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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Multimodal-Enabling the Web: The Secret Sauce...

IBM's Igor Jablokov came close to hitting the bullseye in his response to a "what's the secret sauce?" question in an interview on IBM's work in multimodal-enabling the web. Igor replied that: "everything is ready". That is, there is a great markup for visual markup (XHTML) and a great markup for voice (VoiceXML) and the glue needed to tie them together (XML Events).

Igor's not talking about vaporware here of course, as the Windows version of Opera 8 does in fact support XHTML+Voice, thanks to IBM's enablers. So we've got Opera 8 installed and are brimming with enthusiasm. The question for Igor is, can you post the URL to the X+V "where's the nearest starbucks?" app so we all can try it out?

That's always the tough question - how do you attract a critical mass of web content developers to cool stuff like this? Whomever has the right answer to that question has the recipe for the secret sauce.

Read the the whole interview.

by spkydog @ 3:26:00 PM   Bookmark and Share
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At 6:15 AM, Blogger Igor Jablokov said...

Question answered! :-) I'll post more on my blog about these speech-enabled web services when I get a chance...

Looking for a romantic restaurant to take your significant other? Ask for it at: http://pvc002.austin.ibm.com/findit3/

Travelling on a quick day trip to Seattle and needing to know if you should bring an umbrella? Try: http://pvc002.austin.ibm.com/weatherit

Leaving the office in Atlanta and wanting to know which route to take? Better check with: http://pvc002.austin.ibm.com/traffic

These are just some of the publically facing examples that we can share (a few more are at http://www.ibm.com/pvc/multimodal). We are working with quite a number of customers that are going to have some interesting things to showcase as soon as they are ready.

 
At 6:16 AM, Blogger Igor Jablokov said...

I should have mentioned, everyone's comments are welcome on these demos...we'll make them better based on feedback.

 
At 5:57 AM, Blogger spkydog said...

Thanks for the X+V content links Igor! For those of you who don't have Opera 8 for Windows installed, do so now and give these apps a try! Also, be sure to visit Igor's blog for the latest news on multimodal happenings at IBM.

 

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