PLS is now W3C Recommendation !

Hey,


Such a great news ! PLS is now "W3C Recommendation".

Congrats for this key steps to all involved in PLS mainly Paolo Baggia, Paul Bagshaw,Daniel C. Burnett, Kazuyuki Ashimura,Jerry Carter, Frank Scahill,Richard Ishida, Matt Womer, Max Froumentin and James Larson.


Here is a good document that discribes "Life Cycle" of W3C draft
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html

Here is the press release
http://www.w3.org/2008/10/pls-pressrelease

Do not forget to checkout France Telecom's Opensource PLS version,
http://www.orange.com/en_EN/innovation/software_licensing/Software/PLS.html



-Raxit Sheth
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France Telecom, Orange Lab GPLed Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)

Hi,


On 12-july-2008, Paul Bagshaw [France Telecom Orange Labs] has announced on Voice Browser Working Group, Public mailing list, "To assist in the wider use of this W3C recommendation, France Telecom Orange Labs has released an implementation of PLS 1.0 under the Gnu General Public License version 3. "

Here is the link to E-mail.

The implementation is in perl.

If you want to try it out, here is the link to download page.


My Personal thought : I have started the OpenPLS however very much frankly, i was not able to contribute much to OpenPLS (which is hosted at www.sourceforge.net/projects/openpls) due to time crunch !

Its really good to have this implementation as opensourced. I would love to see PLS as standard. Kudo's to folks at France Telcom Orange Labs.


-Raxit Sheth