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