Patent by AT&T Research

chkout below links,
related to TTS,ASR and DialogMgmt system.

http://www.research.att.com/viewPatent.cfm?Number=7139715
http://www.research.att.com/viewPatent.cfm?Number=7139717

--raxit

SSML Workshop in Hyderabad India

As per the w3.org the next ssml workshop is going to held in Jan 13-14 2k7 in hyderabad.
So keep watch on the workshop page. (yet currently no more info available except sponsered by Bhrigus Inc,)

--raxit

VoiceObjects Xml Dev Kit

This is also interesting...

http://www.voiceobjects.com/en/news/2006/101806dk.html


-raxit

VoxTiger + VoiceObjects ( + tellme+ skype)

Hi,

Check the following links...

http://www.voxtiger.com/
http://www.voiceobjects.com/en/news/2006/101806vt.html


Cheers
Raxit

Nuance'S Mobile Text Messaging Challenge...

Nuance to host Mobile Text Messaging Challenge, and one parti. is Ben Cook, (world champion of text messaging) Vs Nuance's Speech Technology,

As Nuance telling it as 'Amazing' and 'man Vs Machine' stuff ,it will creating the interest in the speech (and mobile) community


you can view this @ Nuance's Site :
http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/20061016_textmessaging.asp


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Raxit Sheth

One more OpenSource--About Stop Rude Calls

Checkout this,

Stop Rude Calls, Hmmm so Vxml/Ivr/ccxml projects gets increased on SF.net


Cheers,
Raxit Sheth

Disposable Phone Number ?

chkout this,

http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2006/09/disposable_phone_numbers.html

I have to think this trick really useful ?

Any idea on this ?
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Raxit

Voice Gaming ...!!!

Recently come to know about this,

the KBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaun_Banega_Crorepati), Indian Gameshow anchored by Amitabh Bachchan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan (Indian Superstar) is ( actually very simillar gameshow ) being played over the telephone, by Telefun (www.telefun.com.pk), with the Name and Voice of Amitabh Bachan and the company get hogged in to some Non-Technical issues,


Even the company is expecting to get very good response, of the game show, Aao Banain Crorepati ( Let's become Millionare), the interesting point is As per this link,
http://www.entertainmentorbit.com/2006/09/14/voice-of-big-b-resounds-to-karachi-callers.html
the company has created VUI/Audio Design in such a way that participant feels that the game show is actually run by Amitabh.(which is actually not)


ref. link
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1992710.cms



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Raxit Sheth

Common Sense Suggestions for Developing Multimodal UI

Checkout this interesting one, by Jim Larson of Intel, on Commonsense Suggestions for Multimodal User Interface,

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-suggestions-20060911/

If i remember correctly, not of MM but for VoiceApps dirk (of JvoiceXml) has prepared a survey for VUI, for some fact-finding from user perspective, what problems users are facing while using SpeechApps and survey was having detailed question.


before that T.V.Raman of IBM (Currently in Google) has also put some thought on UI principle for Multimodal Design,
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/tvraman/chi-2003/mmi-position.html




cheers
Raxit Sheth

Its time of Cellcasting & Live Radio,

Checkout this link,

http://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/aboutoptus/menuitem.813c6f701cee5a14f0419f108c8ac7a0/?vgnextoid=e628ecd10218d010VgnVCM10000029867c0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=44b4ce4b55728010VgnVCM10000029867c0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default


http://www.onmobile.com/onmobile/mediacenter_pressreleases5.html

It seems one step beyond Podcasting...



Cheers,
Raxit Sheth

The IBM Accessibility ODF Coding Challenge 2006...For Students Only...

If you are Student/Profs., Before going further checkout this url,

http://www-306.ibm.com/able/contest/index.html

and then makeup urself for some crazy Ideas... ,Prizes are also good :) ,


Good Luck,



Cheers,
Raxit Sheth

Interesting...Speech is not the future

Check out link, its interesting,


http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195333&cid=16003821

Regards
Raxit Sheth

Google and Ebay on Advertising and Click-to-Call

During my reading of news and blogs, i found this,
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ebay.htm


Before few days on spkydog's blog there is rumor on Google & Tellme pointing to ,
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/voip/google-buys-tellme.html

which was a bit indication/rumor of Google has some plan on Telephony etc, and people keeping watch on GoogleTalk's Birthday (24-aug)for some announcement.

Here are one blog entry you may find interesting,
http://jktb-john.blogspot.com/2006/08/while-i-believe-it-is-smart-move-for.html

anyway Voice/Video Advertising seems to be new innovative market, and Voice may play vital role to convert (likely) customer from "desire to purchase" to actual "buyer".




Cheers,
Raxit Sheth

One more implementatoin of SCXML...

Try out this,

While i was going thru voice browser working group page, i found this,

One more Implementation of SCXML [ I think not Open Source : ( ] is out,
I am going for trying...
refer this for further detail

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/2006JulSep/0042.html


Bye
Raxit Sheth

New Standard for eliminating poor caller experiences...!!! With Nuance and MSFT...!!!

Hmmm...

While reading MSFT Speech site come to know about this, interesting...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/aug06/08-07MSGetHumanPR.mspx
http://www.gethuman.com
(No News yet on Nuance Site about this)

Waiting for next 60 days...!!!

Microsoft is well known for Customer Interaction (Great GUI...!!!) and now stepping out in Speech UI/Multimodal...

meanwhile come to know Nuance partners with ClickFox, Customer Behavior Intelligence software and some simillar stuff...



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Cheers
Raxit Sheth

iSpeak It @ Apple

After reading Spkydog's blog i just dig around and found this link on apple's site

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/ispeakit.html

--
I will edit this in next 1/2 days as i am in hurry :)


Cheers,
Raxit Sheth

Post-Doctoral Fellowship @ IIT Bombay by Motorola Inc

Generally I had never post this type of stuff, but this is exciting.

Its about Wireless/Mobile Technology research,


Checkout this link for more details,
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/motorola.html

(Open for Indian as well as Non-Indian candidate)


--
Raxit Sheth

Microsoft and Nortel Announce Innovative Communications Alliance

Check out this link,


http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/jul06/07-18UCGNortel.mspx
http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=-8055&oid=100203722&locale=en-US


One more step of MSFT towards Unified Communication...


--
Raxit Sheth


Jsut a Little Change with some of the big source of unified communication,
Checkout this link, http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx

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Cheers
Raxit Sheth

International Workshop on Internationalization @ W3C India

Its always interesting to view w3c page,


http://www.w3cindia.in/2006/08/events200608.html

http://www.w3cindia.in/2006/08/programme200608.htm


check out these link, some speakers are from Google, MSFT,IIIT etc.





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Raxit Sheth

Conferences for Speech & Related Tech.

Check out this two links,

http://research.ihost.com/and2007/

http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2006/



--
Raxit

The Unified Communications Revolution -- by Bill Gates

Check out this link,
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2006/06-26unifiedcomm.asp

Containing some of the Real-Life Examples, Practical Scenario and the Near Future in the simplest way.

This may be considered one more "Unified Stuff" for Future IT/Communication Industry,The Previous one was CEO Summit related to Unified Data/Information Management/Access.
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2006/05-17eim.asp





Raxit Sheth

Oracle's Event Driven Architecture (EDA)

Oracle announce one of the Latest and Hot stuff, Oracle EDA.

Seem to be SOA/Loosely coupled/ + Rule-Base Engine + Messaging Stuff, which would make easy Integration of Various Component/Application.

Check out the link for more details,

www.oracle.com/goto/eda



Raxit

Oracle Buys Telephony@Work Last week

Next Big move of Oracle on Telecom/Telephony related Solution.

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_jun/telephonyatwork.html

Tech Talk : The ABCs of Call Centers @ IIT,Bombay

Check out the link for further details,

http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/activities/techtalks/?id=talkdisplay&talkid=5

--
Raxit

Gnu Phone : Check out Innovative Ideas :)

Hi All,

I can only write check out this link :)

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/phone.features.html


Cheers....

Regards
Raxit
B @ S of V.

SSML Workshop 2 Papers

Check out this link,
Contains Papers,talks and Agenda for "Future SSML",

http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/agenda.html


--
Raxit

Hi,

While Browsing comp.speech.research, I come to know the Survey Message from Dirk,

Its Very Interesting,
http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Mitarbeiter/dirk/survey-vui-expectations.xls

Checkout the link,

-
Raxit

Audium to offer Adaptive Audio™ technology from Interactive Digital

Check out these links,

http://www.interactive-digital.com./AAAudium.htm

http://www.audiumcorp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=19

about partnership of Audium and interactive-digital.


Raxit
"Business @ Speed of Voice...!!!"

State Chart --Good Link

One of the Good Article about State Chart Machine @ Dr. Dobb's Journal,

Checkout this link,
http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/188101799

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Raxit

Skype + Language Line + Voxeo

Something Cooooool Stuff Here.

easier-than-ever , cost-effectively, from English into more than 150 languages.....!!!


Check out following links,

http://www.languageline.com/skype


Raxit Sheth

A Web Revolution in the Living room : Opera For Device

A Web Revolution in the Living room:

Check out this press release, http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/05/10/
and this link,
http://wii.nintendo.com/


--
Raxit

takeasipofvoip: Sip The Future Of Telephony

Hi All,

Introducing the blog of my collegue, Saurabh, Take A look @ the blog.

Raxit

Addressbook Bug in Cellphone Nokia

Hi All,

Today Morning I got some interesting stuff from Saurabh Nirkhey,

You can also try it out...(We just tried on Nokia Phone)

Do you know your hand set does not checks the whole number you dial (and Recieve), it checks only last 8 digits.


take one number already stored in your mobile phone Example: XX49654321
..call a number putting any number instead of XX ...   i.e.  1149654321 etc...
..this will display the same name stored in your phone.


Also Check for Recieving Call... Even if the last 8 digits match it would display
the name from address book...




Thanks,
Raxit Sheth

Oracle Outlines Roadmap for Comprehensive Service Delivery Platform for Telecommunications Industry

Today Oracle Announced Roadmap for Service Delivery Platform(SDP) for Telecomm. Industry, Read out full press release, linke here...

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_apr/oracle_sdp.html


Raxit

Oracle buys Portal Software

Hi

Oracle buys Portal Software

For the some good annoncement for communications and media industry, refer oracle press release ( http://www.oracle.com/portalsoftware/index.html)

Raxit

Google Search- Voice Interface Patneted

Hi,

Check this link,
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=Google.ASNM.&OS=AN/Google&RS=AN/Google

Thanks,
Raxit

Google Search- Voice Interface Patneted

Hi,

Check this link,
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=Google.ASNM.&OS=AN/Google&RS=AN/Google

Thanks,
Raxit

The Bombay High Court has introduced a new Multilingual IVR Systems

Hi,


http://hcbom.mah.nic.in/press.html

Check out this link,
Service provided in Three Languages English, Hindi and Marathi.
This service started from 5-April-2006


Thanks
Raxit Sheth

Reading (and Execution) by PM and Archs

Hi all,

Good Stuff here,

Check out,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month


Raxit

Workshop :SHALLOW PARSING OF INDIAN LANGUAGES

THE FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING AND SHALLOW PARSING OF INDIAN LANGUAGES

Hurry....Its Startfrom Tomorrow...


Raxit

RFID attacks ....!!!

Interesting link about RFID attack,
http://www.rfidvirus.org/middleware.html


Raxit Sheth

Opera India...!!!

Hi,


Check out this Link, Opera has Started Office in India,

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/02/20/


Regards
Raxit

DP, Refactoring and PM for small team Open Source Project

Hi All,

If you want some opensource example of Design Patterns, Refactoring and PM (for small team project) take out look at JVoiceXml on Sourceforge, all its CVS and mailing list ,Its in Java but having many examples of patterns and refactored code, also documented architecture.

Cheers,


Raxit Sheth

March 10---Historical Day for Telecom Industry...

Hello All....

Today March 10, The Day on which First Telephone Call Made.

Check out following links...


http://ieeeboston.org/milestone_telephone/telephone_milestone.htm

http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS39C.S97/telephone/telephone.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bell1.html



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Raxit

Workshop on New Frontiers in Database Research @ IITB

Hello,


Workshop on New Frontiers in Database Research @ IITB

For further details check out this link...
http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/ita/workshops/convergence06/



Regards
Raxit Sheth

Design Patterns + Dist. Multimodal Sync Protocol

Design Patterns (DP)/Software Arch. (SA) in Distributed multimodal sync. protocol

Checkout this Protocol carefully...Real Examples of DP Stuff

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-engelsma-dmsp-01.txt


Raxit

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/hotsip.html

Oracle Acquires Hotsip...Yes this is true.

Checkout Oracle and Hotsip Site.



Raxit Sheth

SCXML Revised WD out...!!!

Check out this new version of SCXML WD.

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Raxit Sheth

You will never lose your way

Check out this good link.


India's First Satatellite based Navigation System. (use of PocketPC),
Speech Output is also supported.

http://www.satguide.in/
http://www.satnavtechnologies.com/



Raxit Sheth

MSDN Jan 2006 Article...Talking Windows

Check out these links,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/speechinWindowsVista/default.aspx

Raxit