Vox Populi (Latin for “Voice of the People”) aims to provide useful information on interactive communication technologies and social networking tools that can be used by government officials to improve services to citizens and taxpayers. This is the voice of Government 2.0.

Tools

VoiceXML and Multimodal Tools

  • IBM’s Multimodal Toolkit for WebSphere Studio provides developers with a way to create XHTML+Voice multimodal applications within an integrated development environment.
  • Opera 8.0 Web Browser The Windows version of this browser now has an option that enables voice interaction through XHTML+Voice. This functionality is provided by the IBM® Multimodal Runtime Environment, which connects the Opera Browser to IBM Embedded ViaVoice® (the same technology currently shipping in certain auto navigation systems)
  • Multimodal Browser Extension is a technology that enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to render multimodal applications written in XHTML+Voice.
  • Carnegie Mellon University’s OpenSALT project makes available a SALT 1.0 compliant open-source browser based on the open source Mozilla web browser and make use of open source Sphinx recognition and Festival synthesis software.
  • The latest release of the Microsoft .NET Speech SDK V1.0 is now available for developers. Get your free copy today.
  • HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. It has a number of plugins available that support the
    authoring of VoiceXML documents.
  • Voxeo Designer 2.0 is the first visual phone markup design tool to fully support round-trip development. You can use the designer to visually design phone applications and it will automatically generate the VoiceXML or CallXML markup for you. This allows a voice application developer to focus on important issues like usability and functionality, without having to worry about syntax.
  • NuGram Hosted Server is a hosted service for the development and deployment of dynamic and static speech recognition grammars.
  • In addition to the tools listed above, there is a very good listing here - however, some of the links in this list may be a bit dated.

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