Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close REUNION?
Jim Larson <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:08:06 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070803070004060003050901 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kazuyuki, I think this is a great idea, would you be willing to build a public mailing list? Regards, -Jim On 9/28/2015 9:17 PM, Kazuyuki Ashimura wrote: > Hi Dan, Jim Larson, Jim Barnett, Debbie and all, > > I really appreciate all the great contribution made by the group > to the standardization of voice technologies, and am proud that > I could be a part of the work. > > By the way, as you know, the group is closing, and that means > the VBWG mailing lists (both the Member list and the public list) > will be also closed. > > So I think maybe it would make sense to have another ML for > the VBWG alumni to continue some more discussion, e.g, on > the possible reunion at SpeechTEK. > > What d you think? > > Maybe the ML could be a public one. > > Thanks, > > Kazuyuki > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Deborah Dahl > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear Dan, > Thank you for your note and the summary of the VBWG's history and > specifications. The list of specifications that the group published is > indeed impressive, but it's even more impressive when you know, as > the VBWG > members well know, how each feature of each specification was thought > through, debated, revised, wordsmithed, and tested before it > became part of > the standard. The specifications look on the surface like a dry > list of > MUST's and SHOULD's but that appearance doesn't do justice to the long > discussions and late nights in far-flung places that led to their > creation. > All of this hard work and care resulted in an incredible suite of > standards > that laid the foundation for a whole industry. I only wish Scott > were still > with us today to share these final thoughts. > Jim, that's a wonderful idea to get together at SpeechTEK. I would > love to > do that. > best, > Debbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Larson [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:24 AM > To: Dan Burnett; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (group); Voice Public List > Subject: Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close > REUNION? > > Thanks so much for participating in one of the most successful W3C > working > groups. We achieved much, had meetings at interesting places, and > had great > times. Thank you. > > Let me know if you would like to get together for a WBWG reunion at > SpeechTEK, May 23-25 in Washington DC, by indicating your > availability at > one or more of these dates/times: > > Sunday evening May 22 > Monday lunch May 23 > Monday evening May 23 > Tuesday lunch May 24 > Tuesday evening May 24 > Wednesday lunch May 25 > Wednesday evening May 25 > > -Jim > > > > On 9/26/2015 8:26 AM, Dan Burnett wrote: > > To all of you who have helped in the Voice Browser Working Group > over > > the years, > > > > > > The Voice Browser Working Group will be closing shortly, but > before it > does, it is appropriate to say a few words about the history and > accomplishments of the WG. > > > > The Voice Browser Working Group has been one of the > longest-running and > most successful working groups at W3C, both in terms of its list of > specifications and its whole-hearted adoption by its target industry. > > > > Under the leadership of Jim Larson, the group started in 1999 > with a goal > of taking the VoiceXML 1.0 specification created by IBM, Motorola, > AT&T, and > Lucent and turning it into a world-wide standard for call center > Interactive > Voice Response (IVR) application development. At the time, nearly > all such > development was done using proprietary software running on custom > hardware > systems that lived in phone company Central Office buildings. > Application > development took many months, and new features often took years to > make > their way onto the hardware platforms. Additionally, Automatic Speech > Recognition (ASR, or Voice Recognition) technology suffered from a > lack of > adopted standards, even though many of the APIs were similar at > their core > due to agreements in the research community. This made it > difficult for > competition in the ASR space to flourish since each ASR engine had > a custom > API that IVR application developers had to use. Meanwhile, the HTML > revolution had already resulted in web-based customer self-care, so > enterprises already had a direct line between their customers and > their back > end systems. > > Enter VoiceXML. Extending XML in the way W3C, at the time, was > extending > HTML, via XML elements with associated rendering semantics, > VoiceXML created > a uniform language for IVR development that allowed enterprises to > use the > web model of resource naming, caching, and fetching for easy > integration > with their existing back-end systems. Simultaneously, it created > a uniform > way to use ASR engines, with a common lexical grammar language > (SRGS), a > common semantic processor language (SISR), a common speech synthesis > language (SSML), a common lexicon format (PLS), and the amazing > innovation > of a confidence threshold value constrained to range from 0 to 100, > something considered almost impossible at the time. > > Most importantly, VoiceXML introduced the web model to the > automated call > center environment, along with its associated reductions in > development cost > and time and deployment cost and time. Within a few short years > VoiceXML-based systems dominated the IVR industry, replacing all > existing > custom hardware systems on the market with racks of general > compute servers > as we know them today. > > VoiceXML has been an unqualified success that has directly led to > continued innovations such as those from the cloud IVR industry of > Twilio, > Tropo, and others. > > > > During its lifetime the Voice Browser produced the following > specifications: > > > > Recommendations: > > ---------------- > > 2015-09-01 > > State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control > > Abstraction http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ > > > > 2011-07-05 > > Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/ > > > > 2010-09-07 > > Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/ > > > > 2008-10-14 > > Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/ > > > > 2007-06-19 > > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/ > > > > 2007-04-05 > > Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/ > > > > 2004-09-07 > > Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis > > > > 2004-03-16 > > Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar > > > > 2004-03-16 > > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20 > > > > Group Notes: > > ------------ > > 2015-08-11 > > DOM Event I/O Processor for SCXML > > http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-dom-iop/ > > > > 2015-08-11 > > XPath Data Model for SCXML > > http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-xpath-dm/ > > > > 2009-12-08 > > Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap > > http://www.w3.org/TR/mw4d-roadmap/ > > > > 2005-05-26 > > SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values > > http://www.w3.org/TR/ssml-sayas > > > > 1998-01-28 > > Voice Browsers > > http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice > > > > > > Working Drafts: > > ------------- > > 2010-12-16 > > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml30/ > > > > > > I would personally like to thank all the members of the Voice > Browser > > Working Group over the years, with special mention to > > - Jim Barnett and his team for helping us finish SCXML, our final > > Recommendation, > > - Kaz Ashimura for his years of dedicated work as our Team Contact, > > and > > - Jim Larson and our recently departed friend, Scott McGlashan, > for their > outstanding vision and leadership. > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Dan Burnett > > Chair, Voice Browser Working Group > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Kaz Ashimura, W3C Staff Contact for Auto, WoT, TV, MMI, Voice and Geo > Tel: +81 3 3516 2504 > --------------070803070004060003050901 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8" http-equiv=3D"Content-Ty= pe"> </head> <body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> <div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">Kazuyuki,<br> <br> I think this is a great idea, would you be willing to build a public mailing list?<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> -Jim<br> <br> On 9/28/2015 9:17 PM, Kazuyuki Ashimura wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite=3D"mid:[email protected]= l.com" type=3D"cite"> <div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Dan, Jim Larson, Jim Barnett, Debbie and all, <div><br> </div> <div>I really appreciate all the great contribution made by the group<br> </div> <div>to the standardization of voice technologies, and am proud that</div> <div>I could be a part of the work.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>By the way, as you know, the group is closing, and that means</div> <div>the VBWG mailing lists (both the Member list and the public list)</div> <div>will be also closed.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>So I think maybe it would make sense to have another ML for<= /div> <div>the VBWG alumni to continue some more discussion, e.g, on</d= iv> <div>the possible reunion at SpeechTEK.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>What d you think?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Maybe the ML could be a public one.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Kazuyuki</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> </div> <div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br> <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Deborah Dahl <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&= gt;</span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Dan,<b= r> Thank you for your note and the summary of the VBWG's history and<br> specifications. The list of specifications that the group published is<br> indeed impressive, but it's even more impressive when you know, as the VBWG<br> members well know, how each feature of each specification was thought<br> through, debated, revised, wordsmithed, and tested before it became part of<br> the standard. The specifications look on the surface like a dry list of<br> MUST's and SHOULD's but that appearance doesn't do justice to the long<br> discussions and late nights in far-flung places that led to their creation.<br> All of this hard work and care resulted in an incredible suite of standards<br> that laid the foundation for a whole industry. I only wish Scott were still<br> with us today to share these final thoughts.<br> Jim, that's a wonderful idea to get together at SpeechTEK. I would love to<br> do that.<br> best,<br> Debbie<br> <span class=3D"im HOEnZb"><br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Jim Larson [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]= om</a>]<br> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:24 AM<br> To: Dan Burnett; <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</= a> (group); Voice Public List<br> Subject: Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close REUNION?<br> <br> </span> <div class=3D"HOEnZb"> <div class=3D"h5">Thanks so much for participating in one o= f the most successful W3C working<br> groups.=C2=A0 We achieved much, had meetings at interesti= ng places, and had great<br> times.=C2=A0 Thank you.<br> <br> Let me know if you would like to get together for a WBWG reunion at<br> SpeechTEK, May 23-25 in Washington DC, by indicating your availability at<br> one or more of these dates/times:<br> <br> Sunday evening May 22<br> Monday lunch May 23<br> Monday evening May 23<br> Tuesday lunch May 24<br> Tuesday evening May 24<br> Wednesday lunch May 25<br> Wednesday evening May 25<br> <br> -Jim<br> <br> <br> <br> On 9/26/2015 8:26 AM, Dan Burnett wrote:<br> > To all of you who have helped in the Voice Browser Working Group over<br> > the years,<br> ><br> ><br> > The Voice Browser Working Group will be closing shortly, but before it<br> does, it is appropriate to say a few words about the history and<br> accomplishments of the WG.<br> ><br> > The Voice Browser Working Group has been one of the longest-running and<br> most successful working groups at W3C, both in terms of its list of<br> specifications and its whole-hearted adoption by its target industry.<br> ><br> > Under the leadership of Jim Larson, the group started in 1999 with a goal<br> of taking the VoiceXML 1.0 specification created by IBM, Motorola, AT&T, and<br> Lucent and turning it into a world-wide standard for call center Interactive<br> Voice Response (IVR) application development.=C2=A0 At th= e time, nearly all such<br> development was done using proprietary software running on custom hardware<br> systems that lived in phone company Central Office buildings.=C2=A0 Application<br> development took many months, and new features often took years to make<br> their way onto the hardware platforms.=C2=A0 Additionally= , Automatic Speech<br> Recognition (ASR, or Voice Recognition) technology suffered from a lack of<br> adopted standards, even though many of the APIs were similar at their core<br> due to agreements in the research community.=C2=A0 This m= ade it difficult for<br> competition in the ASR space to flourish since each ASR engine had a custom<br> API that IVR application developers had to use.=C2=A0 Meanwhile, the HTML<br> revolution had already resulted in web-based customer self-care, so<br> enterprises already had a direct line between their customers and their back<br> end systems.<br> > Enter VoiceXML.=C2=A0 Extending XML in the way W3C, = at the time, was extending<br> HTML, via XML elements with associated rendering semantics, VoiceXML created<br> a uniform language for IVR development that allowed enterprises to use the<br> web model of resource naming, caching, and fetching for easy integration<br> with their existing back-end systems.=C2=A0 Simultaneousl= y, it created a uniform<br> way to use ASR engines, with a common lexical grammar language (SRGS), a<br> common semantic processor language (SISR), a common speech synthesis<br> language (SSML), a common lexicon format (PLS), and the amazing innovation<br> of a confidence threshold value constrained to range from 0 to 100,<br> something considered almost impossible at the time.<br> > Most importantly, VoiceXML introduced the web model to the automated call<br> center environment, along with its associated reductions in development cost<br> and time and deployment cost and time. Within a few short years<br> VoiceXML-based systems dominated the IVR industry, replacing all existing<br> custom hardware systems on the market with racks of general compute servers<br> as we know them today.<br> > VoiceXML has been an unqualified success that has directly led to<br> continued innovations such as those from the cloud IVR industry of Twilio,<br> Tropo, and others.<br> ><br> > During its lifetime the Voice Browser produced the following<br> specifications:<br> ><br> > Recommendations:<br> > ----------------<br> > 2015-09-01<br> > State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control<br> > Abstraction <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/</a><br> ><br> > 2011-07-05<br> > Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/</a><br> ><br> > 2010-09-07<br> > Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1<= br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/speech-synthesis11/</a><br> ><br> > 2008-10-14<br> > Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/pronunciation-lexicon/</a><br> ><br> > 2007-06-19<br> > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/voicexml21/</a><br> ><br> > 2007-04-05<br> > Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/semantic-interpretation/</a><br> ><br> > 2004-09-07<br> > Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0<= br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/speech-synthesis</a><br> ><br> > 2004-03-16<br> > Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/speech-grammar</a><br> ><br> > 2004-03-16<br> > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/voicexml20</a><br> ><br> > Group Notes:<br> > ------------<br> > 2015-08-11<br> > DOM Event I/O Processor for SCXML<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-dom-iop/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/scxml-dom-iop/</a><br> ><br> > 2015-08-11<br> > XPath Data Model for SCXML<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-xpath-dm/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/scxml-xpath-dm/</a><br> ><br> > 2009-12-08<br> > Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/mw4d-roadmap/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/mw4d-roadmap/</a><br> ><br> > 2005-05-26<br> > SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/ssml-sayas" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/ssml-sayas</a><br> ><br> > 1998-01-28<br> > Voice Browsers<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/NOTE-voice</a><br> ><br> ><br> > Working Drafts:<br> > -------------<br> > 2010-12-16<br> > Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0<br> > <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml30/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/= TR/voicexml30/</a><br> ><br> ><br> > I would personally like to thank all the members of the Voice Browser<br> > Working Group over the years, with special mention to<br> > - Jim Barnett and his team for helping us finish SCXML, our final<br> > Recommendation,<br> > - Kaz Ashimura for his years of dedicated work as our Team Contact,<br> > and<br> > - Jim Larson and our recently departed friend, Scott McGlashan, for their<br> outstanding vision and leadership.<br> ><br> > Thank you.<br> ><br> ><br> > Dan Burnett<br> > Chair, Voice Browser Working Group<br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear=3D"all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> <div class=3D"gmail_signature"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div class=3D"gmail_signature"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div> <div> <div>Kaz Ashimura, W3C Staff Contact for Auto, WoT, TV, MMI, Voice and Geo</div> <div>Tel: +81 3 3516 2504</div> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------070803070004060003050901--