At SpeechTEK this past week in NYC the TALK was about the successes and POSSIBILITIES of software that can speak and respond to our voices. I was impressed by the state of the art of Speech enabled platforms and inspired by the potential for future developement. SpeechDEV is the next conference I would like to attend, because as we well know “its all about Developers”.
As Developers we have two ways to go: VoiceXML and SALT. Most of the participants at SpeechTEK were in the VoiceXML camp and very vocal about it too. Microsoft is working the SALT mine and you can download their SDK's.
VoiceXML like HTML will be big because more and more people will quickly learn how to use it. Much can be done with SALT now, but that of course is more for propriety platforms. We've been here before it seems...