Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments (ASIDE 2005) ITRW and COST278 Final Workshop Aalborg, Denmark November 10-11, 2005

VoiceXML: Industry Perspectives and Business Opportunities

James A. Larson

Intel Corporation, USA

Speech synthesis, speech recognition, improved hardware, and improved dialog system combine into a disruptive technology that will forever change how people interact with embedded computers. Network convergence, device convergence, and standard modular components are changing the computing environment. While call centers are today’s major market for speech applications, multimodal applications on portable handheld devices will soon dominate the market for speech technology.

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Bibliographic reference.  Larson, James A. (2005): "VoiceXML: industry perspectives and business opportunities", In ASIDE-2005, paper 43.