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Friday, February 22, 2002

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/21/020221hnsalt.xml

Speech technology for applications inches forward
Matt Berger

AN EARLY VERSION of an emerging technology that will allow users to control software applications using the human voice was released to developers Wednesday. A group led in part by Microsoft and Speechworks International, known as the SALT Forum, short for Speech Application Language Tags, released the first public specification of its technology. When completed, the technology would allow developers to add speech "tags" to Web applications written in XML (Extensible Markup Language) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), allowing those applications to be controlled through voice commands rather than a mouse or a keyboard....

 


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