[Communicator-user] [jbass@darpa.mil: New call control language requirements for the W3C Speech Interface Framework]

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@li...>]

All -

Jim Bass, the program manager for the DARPA Communicator program, has
asked me to facilitate a conversation about the following document:

	http://www.w3.org/TR/call-control-reqs

As many of you know, this is one of the documents that the W3C Voice
Browsers activity has generated in the context of making a set of
proposals for telephone-based dialogue capabilities. A number of the
folks involved in the DARPA Communicator program are also involved in
W3CVB. The documents that have been generated under this activity can
be found at http://www.w3.org/Voice. These documents include proposals
(in varying states of completion) for speech grammars, dialogue
descriptions (using VoiceXML, essentially), synthesis markup,
multimodal interaction, and NL semantics.

His complete message is attached. I will contribute my own view in a
later message.

Sam

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From: jbass <jb...@da...>
Subject: New call control language requirements for the W3C Speech Interfa
	ce Framework
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:17:49 -0400

Everyone,

We need information, and I would like Sam to be the primary for this.

	http://www.w3.org/TR/call-control-reqs

Issues:

1.  Is the proposed solution helpful or hurtful for Galaxy Communicator
work.
2.  Should DARPA through MITRE (and MIT, IBM, et. al.) have an input?
3.  What issues are key for the Communicator program to follow?

By the way, I want something about this presented in New Orleans.

This is a critical time event.  We have a lot to contribute to the work - we
have a major portion of the community.  We CANNOT assume ready acceptance of
our work at the W3C.  We must step up, present, defend, and advocate our
technology.  Do WE believe in Communicator and the Galaxy architecture?  I
do!  So let's get it beyond our community out to the W3C.

Sam, pass this through the listbot so everyone knows our thinking and
concerns.

Thanks,

Jim

James D. Bass, Ph.D.
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
Program Manager - Information Technology Office
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DARPA-ITO
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Office:  703.696.2227
Fax:  703.696.4534
SETA: Tracie Smith 703.522.6067, ext. 153 
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