Intel, Microsoft dip into Speech with SALT
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Aiming to help businesses extend their Web presences with speech, Intel and Microsoft Monday announced they are jointly developing technologies and a reference design based on the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 specification submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in August. The SALT specification defines a set of lightweight tags as extensions to common Web-based programming languages, allowing developers to add speech functionality to existing Web applications.
The joint effort by Intel and Microsoft will leverage Intel's telephony building blocks -- namely Intel Architecture servers, NetStructure communications boards and telephony call management interface software -- and Microsoft's .NET Speech platform to give enterprise customers a set of tools with which to build and deploy their own speech applications, and also to give ISVs, OEMs, VARs and SIs a toolset with which to build and deploy such applications for enterprise customers.