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
We love Mumbai :)
www.m4mum.com

openpls, mykavita , mobile 4 mumbai and other updates !

What we are upto !

Few readers ping us not much "On-Topic" blogpost related to Voip/VoiceXml/IVR etc ???

Let me explain a bit

MyKavita
Some of you already knowing, in January we launched http://www.Mykavita.com [Kavita means poem] a website based on wordpress where people can write their poem. This was interesting idea on my mind. Its going better than expected !. Our host asked to increase RAM/cpu for the server !. There are some more plan ahead, and some competitor also of the site ! Yeah !

If you are interested in update of mkavita,progress of it, and more details, please refer Mykavita blog http://www.mykavita.com/blog

Mobile 4 Mumbai
Additional to that, some of indian friends, barcampers and MoMo people knowing about the project just kickstarted ! Mobile 4 Mumbai http://m4mum.com ! Its basically some useful utility that can help normal people (this application is having indian context)

OpenPLS
Last but not least is, OpenPLS, www.sourceforge.net/projects/openpls
PLS is related to Speech Technology ! Its Java (Yeah dont panic !) based opensource implementation (LGPL License) we are developing. You must be guessing you have read somewhere on www-voice@w3.org , Yes you are correct Dirk www.jvoicexml.org has announced the project.


For openpls we are into requirenment gathering stage for implementation. if you are geek who want to design and code from scratch, drop a note to me or dirk ! You can be part of openpls.


Let me know for any query !

Note :
Mobile 4 mumbai, if you are into mobile gui development (j2me, symbian, nokia any platform any language, and if you think the project is useful and you want to involved. drop a line to me.)

OpenPLS: Contributors/volunteers contact dirk or me.



Cheers,
Raxit

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.