Curtis Tuckey, Friday Dec 1, 2:30 PM

[Josef Jurek]

Department of Computer Science Sound Seminar Series
Friday, December 1, 2:30 PM, Ryerson 276


               VoiceXML: Speech-Controlled Internet

                          Curtis Tuckey
                    Chicago Development Center
                          Oracle Mobile


The "voice portal" is a new kind of speech-controlled internet that has
come to some prominence in the past year, mostly due to the
standardization of "VoiceXML", a markup language for dialogs between
humans and computers.  The VoiceXML effort was started at Bell Labs, and
championed by AT&T, Lucent, Motorola, and IBM through acceptance by the
W3C.  I will talk about the design of VoiceXML, describe Motorola's
carrier-grade platform for voice portals, still in production, and
describe Oracle's efforts to add voice-portal capabilities to its
small-screen-device services.


Curt Tuckey manages the Chicago Development Center for Oracle Mobile,
which focuses on speech-controlled internet services.  From 1998 to 2000
he was an engineering manager at Motorola, responsible for application
development for Mya, the cyber assistant, and MIX, the Mobile Internet
Exchange which delivers services through voice, small-screen devices, and
graphical browsers.  From 1991 to 1998 he was a member of the technical
staff of the Software and Systems Research Center at Bell Labs where,
among other projects, he worked on telephone access to the internet.