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| Seminar: |
Voice XML |
| Lecturer(s): |
Ken Abbott & Dennis McCarthy |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Seminar Topics: |
- History and Status of VoiceXML
- VoiceXML Concepts and Language Elements
- Speech Recognition Grammars
- Speech User Interface Design
- VoiceXML Development Tools and Deployment Platforms
- How to dynamically generate VoiceXML and grammars using JSP, XML, and XSL
- Architectures for Adding VoiceXML to Web Applications (HTML, voice, WAP)
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
Ken Abbott is an independent software architect and consultant in the Boston area. His clientele ranges from Fortune 50 companies to .com startups. Recently, his practice has focused on application of Java 2 Enterprise technologies to business applications. Before entering private practice, he was Technical Director at XSoft, a division of Xerox, where he lead the development the InConcert workflow software product. He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, an IBM Certified Solutions Expert, and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Enabling Web Applications With Voice: VoiceXML and Beyond.
Dennis McCarthy is a Senior Technologist at Verizon Information Technology (formerly GTE Laboratories). He represents Verizon in the VoiceXML Forum, and has organized the Boston VoiceXML User Group. He is currently working on alternative means of access to the Web, such as PDA's, WAP, and voice. His previous work was in database management at CCA, and in workflow management at Xerox. He has worked as both a research scientist and product developer. In 1996 he founded WebTech, which is now a chapter of the ACM. |
| Location: |
MIT room 34-101, Edgerton Hall |
| Date: |
Saturday, 10/20/2001 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Wednesday, 10/10/2001
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Peter Mager |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | Voice Enabling Web Applications: Voice XML and Beyond |
| Author(s): | Kenneth Abbott |
| Publisher: | A-Press |
| List price: | $34.95 |
| PDS price: | $25.00 |
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