MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International, agreed to form a forum to develop a platform-free standard for multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications and Web services for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other appliances.
The forum, called Speech Application Language Tags (SALT), reportedly will extend markup languages such as HTML, xHTML and XML, and make it easier and faster to create, deploy and use applications and services.
Bluetooth group defines hands-free specs
NEW YORK-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group’s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of its Hands-Free Profile, which is expected to be adopted by its membership.
Prototypes using the new specification are expected by the end of the year.
