He began by saying that only 17% of the world population uses internet in their day to day activities, now this fact was a eye opener in itself. He continued and added, as to bring the reach of the internet to the masses they ought to create something that is more user friendly than coming on to a website. Its quite obvious that the medium they have chosen a cellphone has far more better outreach than any other device.What they really are aiming at is making the lower strata in the society to effectively use Internet Related Services but instead of logging on to a computer they will dial a number or to put it in a better manner they'll dial a specific telephonic number as different addresses of the websites.
He gave a very interesting example for the use of their project, for example your driver has taken an off day and you are helplessly trying to arrange another so instead going anywhere you dial a number provided to you by your driver as his websites which is having a list of voice based links of other driver's voice websites so you can directly call some of the other driver.
Now according to me this is a very noble idea of bringing more and more people in the reach of internet and making optimum use of the technology to uplift society on the whole. Tomorrow may be farmers,hawkers,small time businessmen will be having Vice based websites which will eventually make their business reach to a whole lot of desired users.
Technically speaking they are calling the project the "Spoken Web" Project. The technologies they are putting in use are such as VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language) and HSTP (Hyper Speech Transfer Protocol), Spoken Web mirrors the world wide web in a telecom network where people can create and browse "VoiceSites" that have their own URLs (uniform resource locator), traverse "VoiceLinks", and conduct business transactions, according to IBM.
Users can access the voice-based web using a toll-free number, through a variety of ways including a voice recognition system or a tone phone. VoiceSites can be also created over the phone, using a set of templates on the server side, he adds.
The web of VoiceSites can potentially link to the world wide web, but the sites on the web would have to be converted to support spoken interfaces, both via VoiceXML, and in how the content is designed and laid out.
He gave a very interesting example for the use of their project, for example your driver has taken an off day and you are helplessly trying to arrange another so instead going anywhere you dial a number provided to you by your driver as his websites which is having a list of voice based links of other driver's voice websites so you can directly call some of the other driver.
Now according to me this is a very noble idea of bringing more and more people in the reach of internet and making optimum use of the technology to uplift society on the whole. Tomorrow may be farmers,hawkers,small time businessmen will be having Vice based websites which will eventually make their business reach to a whole lot of desired users.
Technically speaking they are calling the project the "Spoken Web" Project. The technologies they are putting in use are such as VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language) and HSTP (Hyper Speech Transfer Protocol), Spoken Web mirrors the world wide web in a telecom network where people can create and browse "VoiceSites" that have their own URLs (uniform resource locator), traverse "VoiceLinks", and conduct business transactions, according to IBM.
Users can access the voice-based web using a toll-free number, through a variety of ways including a voice recognition system or a tone phone. VoiceSites can be also created over the phone, using a set of templates on the server side, he adds.
The web of VoiceSites can potentially link to the world wide web, but the sites on the web would have to be converted to support spoken interfaces, both via VoiceXML, and in how the content is designed and laid out.
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