W3.org Voice Browser Working Group.

Dear All,

As you may be knowing i am now off the road from Voice and Speech Stuff***

Ok, Just appeared update from W3C Voice Browser Working Group VBVG about what the works they are coming up in Next few month, kind of Roadmap and Work in Progress stuff.

You may want to refer the below link, Its having interesting details.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/2007OctDec/0031.html


cheers,
Raxit

***except for Non-Profit Project using VoiceXml and/or Asterisk or any technology which help the normal people at Large.Even the project-idea was having potential, as some primary analysis and feedback done, i don't see any hope till next few month>

drop a line if you want to know more about the project, its based on voice outbound dialing. If you want to have your Text To Speech,ASR, VoiceXml Engine used for large user base and noble cause.

Yahoo Hack Day Bangalore

Hey Hackers ! ,
Assume Joe Arnold is announcing with his tech-spirit


This is Raxit, Was there on Yahoo Hack Day. !

Was not knowing how to code in html/java script, so was hunting for ideas, as i have posted in my earlier post here

Finally In last one hour,something came to my Brain !, I think let's do it.! and submitted my Hack Entry as Final entry 31, at 5:25 pm, as you are knowing 5:30 pm is the deadline. !

And Hey, Rest of the things you are knowing...! Audience cheer up my Idea. !

I am thanking you all for Great Cheers, ! Great clappings...! and Real Motivation !

Let me thank few Yahoo Folks who has helped me when I was NOT having any Idea, I was searching for Idea and they are constantly providing motivation for some hack ,

Thanks to Philip, Siddharth and Anil Patel to help me when I was Idea-Less.

Many Thanks to Joe Arnold, for his great motivation for BarCampMumbai2, Open Hackday!

Thanks to Juhie for great interest in BarCampMumbai2

Thanks to Praveen Gohel, Rakesh Sodha Both are my personal friend and not from yahoo, who always provides some interesting inputs !

Thanks to All Judges who has choose me Hacker without writing a Single Line of Code by Me ! and not only that providing me the book to learn stuff I am not knowing with Special Instruction on First Page !

Thanks to All Hacker, BarCampBangalore Folks, Kamla Bhatt , Some other Yahoo folks, Kashif for great cheers and Congratulating me,

believe me I have never Thought I would be one of the winners, You are knowing, I was taking dinner during announcement ! Good dinner !


Thanks to IT-Team of Yahoo for Making Arrangement for Laptop and good Net connection !


Some of you folks requested some more information, i am pleased to post it here !

Please note:

I am not knowing html programming or Javascript programming, I am knowing a element, i learn to blog, to display link properly

I am not from IIIT-Hyderabad, I have try to get admission for my master this year, even though 95.6 GATE score, i am unable to get in any IIIT, IIT or IISC, other college i dont wanted to go.


someone has written "Not knowing coding" it is actually coding in Html/Javascript, I am knowing coding for C/C++/Unix/Platform-system prog/Xml-C-C++ and little python stuff.


Finally if You were NOT there at Yahoo Hackday you can visit following entries

Entries of Yahoo Hack Day

Yahoo Developer Blog Result announcement.

Hackday on developer.Yahoo.Com

Hackers on Flickr !

IIIT-H Transliteration System

Podcast on Kamla Bhatt Show



Request : If anyone is having my photo/video of Yahoo Hackday ! please Share it with me.


Great Platform provided by Yahoo for Hackers and Real Techno-Geek !

Any Plan for Next Hackday organizing in Mumbai ,Bombay India ?


Inviting you to BarCampMumbai2


-Raxit

Hackin with Idli ! Hackin with Vadapav.. ! Yeah I am @ Yahoo Hackday !

Hey There,


Writing this entry from the laptop provided by Yahoo Hack Day Team. Was busy yesterday with Office Work....no no ....BarCampMumbai2 work. ! so missed some session by Yahoo Geeks. And currently Hunting for Idea Search for Hack !


Good internet connection, Good Food, and availability of Tea !


Hey one interesting stuff found is if one has not came with Laptop, is provided here ! really Very co-operative guys of Yahoo ! to help Hacker in Everyway !


So somone
< i forgot the name > has suggested Bangalore hackday is Hacking with Idli,Vada,- South Indian food and Next weeek will Hackin with Vadapav Indian Burger,speciality of Mumbai,Bombay !


Yeah, like that only...See you there....!!!


-Raxit

One Month Remaining for BarCampMumbai2

Hi,

It will exactly one month later,People will rocking, arguing, discussing, Sharing their thoughts, Sharing Their Cooooool Idea, Showing Their Hack, Showing some cool demo example...and lot more Technical Fun.Yes..I am talking about BarCampMumbai2,

If you are not aware about this, visit this link

http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2

-Raxit

BarCampMumbai2 [ was BarCampMumbaiOct2007]

Hi,


So we have announced the BarCampMumbaiOct2007, after we held meeting @ IIT-Bombay. The Team is just crazy and suggested New Name.!

So the name is decided as BarCampMumbai2 http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2

Let me clear the some of doubt,


Is Venue/Date is changed. ?
No. BarCampMumbai2 will be at same place, SOM-IIT Bombay, Oct 13 2007. Only Name is changed.


Is it Second BarCamp in Mumbai?
NO.

Then why BarCampMumbai2?
Because we really don’t bother about Name.

and really I was confused about BarCampMu and BarCampMu2 etc, which are University Level BarCamps, and few OssBarCamp, I was confused which BarCamp will this, i.e. I was just lost in count…

Any Additional Motive of Name change ?
Yes, it is a clear indication by BarCampMumbai2 Team; they will run the infinite loop starting from 2……. So Don’t Wonder if you find BarCampMumbai3 after few months.

I have registered for BarCampMumbaiOct2007? I need to re-register again?
No. Our Team will take care. We request you to Verify on New Wiki
http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2

Incase of mismatch please let’s know or update the wiki, Procedure will remain the same.

I have Forward the link to My Friends, Colleagues etc. Do I need to re-send again?
It is up to you. You may re-send the link. http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2
The BarCampMumbaiOct2007 page will show you the link to new wiki page, with clear instruction.


I have blogged about BarCampMumbaiOct2007 ? Should i change the post. ?
The old post is just fine, we appreciate if you can change the Link/Name on blog.


Do you have Logo ? Button ? For BarCampMumbai2,?
Currently not, But they will be uploaded soon.

Let me know if you are having any specific suggestion or query.

Thanks,
-Raxit
http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2 <---BarCampMumbai2

Announcing BarCampMumbaiOct2007

Dear All,


We are announcing Next BarCamp in Mumbai,India. One of the event, many peoples are asking as “When is the Next BarCamp in Mumbai ?”, here is the Answer : Oct-13-2007

We have setup basic Wiki, Soon wiki will be updated by You !

Please follow this link for the BarCampMumbaiOct2007 page.

http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampMumbaiOct2007

***The most Frequently asked Question ***

What is BarCampMumbaiOct2007 ? Is it Something Related to BAR

It is IT Technology Event, will be held on Oct-13-2007,@ SOM, IIT-B campus.

It is NOT Related to the Bar you are thinking…!!! :(

If you are aware of Programming Concepts, then many programming Books are using Terminology of Foo/Bar etc,

“BarCamp’s Bar is this Bar.”

please don’t try to Feed above statement to any Machine Learning program, it will be confused. {i have edited for ease of machine learning program.}


Here is the link,

you can Register to Attend & Participate BarCamp.
There is NO FEE for attending or Participating.



Thanks,
-Raxit

BarCampMumbai-University Level

Hmmm,


If you are knowing What BarCamp is, and you are In Mumbai or Pune, directly you may jump to this http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampMU3

If you are not aware what BarCamp is, and http://barcamp.org/TheRulesOfBarCamp

So Stay Stuned for BarCamp.......!!!


-Raxit

SkillsCampPune

Hmmmm




I was visiting BarCamp Wiki and was planning something ! While looking at this, I come to know about SkillsCamp - a kind of BarCamp in different style. Its look Interesting !

-Raxit

One more VoiceXml Tutorial

Hi,

I am in office late night, something is not working, something is getting crashed ! Some More Bug Founds , blah blah blah...!

If you are VoiceXml guy and just want to start- basic intro of VoiceXml, I found one interesting Article very basic tutorial here.




Thanks,

-Raxit

BarCampPune3

Hi,

I am currently blogging, Today I wakeup @ approx 12 noon, as i came back late at home , (approx 1 am) from Pune.

This was my First BarCamp Experience, and it was really Amazing...!!!

there were new Amazing Ideas, how Techy thinks, Thinks more, Implement, and show... and again during all the process thinks and learn a lot!

BarCampPune3 was at Persistet Systems with Co-Sponsored with ThoughtWorks (http://www.thoughtworks.co.in/), BookEazy (http://bookeazy.com/) and Asian School of Cyber Laws (http://asianlaws.org/).


Hopefully I was there at full day, and I have attended interesting session. sometime due to the schedule conflict, i.e. At the same time 2/3 sessions were going on, ! :(

Some of the Interesting Session I attentded are (not in sequence)

1. Ecliplse Plugin Development -- Ketan@ThoughtWorks,

2. Eclipse GEF - Neeraj,Sushant

3. Push Technology -Comet- By Isha (of www.MangoSping.com)

4. FaceBook + Ruby (I think i should start learning Ruby !)

5. Complexity and Fractals -- I didn't understand almost any thing as I was few minutes late. ! :(

6. Mobile Navigation by Hussain (was really more interesting.!)

7. Web 2.0 + php <-- Organizer (rohit -- http://rohit11.com/ + 2 more guy ) one mor has to tell us "Guys Times Up !, It was really really Interesting Discussion, Discussion was on why and why not php ? some available framework for php, Is good Debugging/Profiling Possible with current Php tools available ? and more.... We really do not want to go and want to Continue the discussion. ! We were crazy Why php , why not Java/Dot net/Rail ...!!!(and vice versa), I really learn a lot from this. !

Overall the First Experience of BarCamp is really Good,


-Raxit

BarCampPune3

Tomorro, we are visiting BarCampPune3...!!!




Hope Rain will not disturb the plan !
plan is to

1.Wakeup @ 4:30 a.m. (Tooooo Early ! , Isn't it ?)
2.Quickly get ready
3.Take a Bus from Borivali/Dadar @ approx 5:30 am
4.visit barcamp @ 9:30

no plan for sunday, may return on Saturday ,May not. !

If anyone has simillar plan, plz contact

--Raxit

W3C Speech Standard

Checkout this interesting links,


http://www.w3.org/2007/06/voice-pressrelease

http://www.voicexml.org/press/press_releases.asp?item_id=187




--Raxit

Voice April Fool...!!!

Yes,

It was just April fool...!

Many people call me up for this,I have given some International phone number(s) to try out for some benefit, and On that number(s) some IVR applications were running,

and many people were enjoyed this, some of you have given angry feedback, some of you have
take it easy, some of you have SHOUTED secret code,

if you did not become fool (even communicated with me in this regards) please read
following.

I can not fool some people, because (you understand the remaining part) :)

Just kidding, please DO NOT take it seriously, !


Thanks,


--Raxit

(this post is not FOR public, It is for my Friends, relatives, collegues and other persons who have contacted me, without knowing April 1 is nearer.)

Free Recharge (or postpaid bill Reduction)...!!!

Hi,


This post is readable by public, but suggested to act by only persons who are knowing me,
who are (or were) working with me. There is No warranty/gauranee the things work perfectly,

I am not responsible for any result !

Yes, Its true, you can recharge (or Reduce billing) your mobile for Free, And It is as easy as to just make 2 Phone Calls,


If you know me, If you are (were) my collegue, friend and relative and want to have free
recharge (Or Reduced postpaid bill of equivallent amount) Just Call me, I will provide you
step (--Easy step anyone can do) for this.


If you are NOT knowing me then Don't do Anything, even if you try to contact me via E-mail/Skype-any other Msgr., I may not reply and just delete the E-mail/Msg, Sorry :(


--Raxit Sheth

Intervoice & SCXML

Hi All,

I just found this link,

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/03/prweb514486.htm


Its worth to note about statement of "Who is who of Speech Industry" on SCXML and related future technology. !



--Raxit

Its Not Rumor (now) : Tellme + Microsoft merged...!

There were many rumours about TellMe.

http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/voice-hosting-ma-activity.html
(this is very interesting blog,)


http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6166481.html
(I read this link from spkydog's blog.!)(www.spkydog.blogspot.com)


(Google & Tellme Rumor on spkydog's blog + history of other such acquisitions)http://spkydog.blogspot.com/2006/06/speechvoicexml-merger-mania-wheres.html



Finally this is not now rumor about Tellme and Microsoft...here is a link,
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-14PowerOfSpeechPR.mspx

Some Interesting blog after the announcement

http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/03/14/what-it-feels-like-to-merge-with-microsoft.aspx
(secret Sunday afternoon meetings .!)


http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/03/14/tellme-wow.aspx



{
in my previous posts (Feb-15-2007) I posted link to forbes.com
having article "The Future of Phone and Web Convergence" by TellMe's Mike, and today on Mar-15-2007 I am again posting this gr8 news about Tellme+MSFT !

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/yahoo-google-microsoft-ent-tech-cx_kw_0212wharton.html?partner=telecom_newsletter

}



--Raxit Sheth

VoiceXml Solution Directory

Today the "VoiceXml Solutions Directory" launched by VoiceXml Forum

Currently the Directory is organized in category of (currently this type of search is very frequent)

Products
=Platforms (Both Certified platform as well as not-certified with which one is certified and which are not)
=Re-Usable Modules
=Applications

Services
=VUI Design
=System Integration
=Hosted Vxml Services


you may interested to visit the Directory
http://www.vxmldirectory.com/

here is the press release
http://www.voicexml.org/press/press_releases.asp?item_id=102


You may find the link to VoiceXml Directory in Right hand side of this Page,

--Raxit Sheth

interesting article/discussion with Tellme's Mike McCue on

- personalized experience,
- good interface,
- importance of speech recognition Vs dtmf-only menu
- business model who benefit to service provider, service consumer and host of voice portal.
- importance of business model and strategy of tellme as well other players,competitors
- why voice-access to site is still (more) costly (compared to normal web-access) ?
- some more stuff on future voice-web.

article's titled as "The Future of Phone and Web Convergence"



link :
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/yahoo-google-microsoft-ent-tech-cx_kw_0212wharton.html?partner=telecom_newsletter




--Raxit

SSMl Workshop Photo...!

W3C's SSML-Workshop-3 pics of Hyderabad (Thanks to Paolo for sharing the Photo)

--Raxit Sheth

iiit-Hyderabad.

Hi All,

I just came from hyderabad before few hours, We were having 'very tight schedule' on both days (13-14) and No more time to meet friends and all, so regreting if i didn't meet you.

mostly we were at IIIT International Institute of Information Technology (www.iiit.ac.in), and
come to know that IJCAI-07 ( www.ijcai-07.org) was hosted by IIIT and completed on just 12th Jan 2007, as ijcai is all about AI (including topic about speech/mm and related future technologies) , we also got 2 CD's (from iiit-h with help of Prof. Bagga) having very good (although i have to accept that I didn't understand some stuff on machine learning and some other complex algos, Its may be out of scope, but few of my frnds are in ML and related stuff)

-raxit

SSML Workshop 3 Photoes

Hi all,

Its nice time to meets some of the 'who is who' of Speech and Voice Technologies and some of W3C's member and staffs.

here is Photos of W3C's SSML 3 workshop Posted by Richard Ishida.

(Link edited Ohhh..Spelling mistake of flickr...Thanks richard for prompting earliest.)


--Raxit Sheth