09-08-2012, 11:16 AM
SPEECH APPLICATION LANGUAGE TAGS
Enabling users to speak and listen to a computer will greatly enhance the ability for users to access computers at any time from nearly any place. Speaking and listening is so fundamental that people take it for granted. Speaking and listening are necessary for learning and training, for selling and buying, for persuading and agreeing, and for most social interactions. For the majority of people, speaking and understanding spoken speech is simply the most convenient and natural way of interacting with other people. Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is a small number of Extensible mark-up language elements that may be embedded into host programming languages to speech-enable applications. SALT may be used to develop telephony (speech input and output only) applications and multimodal applications (speech input and output, as well as keyboard and mouse input and display output). SALT and the host programming language provide control structures not available in Voice extensible mark-up language, the current standard language for developing speech applications. The main top-level elements of SALT are <prompt …>,<listen …>, <dtmf …> ,<smex …>.It is helpful for Extends and embeds in existing web language .Empowers ,millions of web developers Offers voice only and multimodal spanning. SALT makes it easy to add speech and telephony to web applications.