Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close REUNION?
Dan Burnett <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:54:29 -0400
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--Apple-Mail=_B112589D-3BA5-49C2-BE2F-568898059CDD Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Yes, I agree with both of these suggestions as well. Even if the = www-voice list remains only as a forward to a generic W3C list, it would = be good for the alias to remain if possible. And an alumni list sounds fun :) -- dan On Sep 29, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Michael Bodell wrote: > It would be good to keep the public list up too, since people ask = questions about recommendations on the list from time to time. The = recommendations say things like: =93Comments for this specification are = welcomed to [email protected] (archives).=94 > =20 > From: Kazuyuki Ashimura [mailto:[email protected]]=20 > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 7:20 AM > To: Jim Larson > Cc: Deborah Dahl; Jim Barnett; James Larson; [email protected]; = Voice Public List > Subject: Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close = REUNION? > =20 > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Jim Larson <[email protected]> = wrote: > Kazuyuki, >=20 > I think this is a great idea, would you be willing to build a public = mailing list? > =20 > Please let me check within the Team. > =20 > Kazuyuki > =20 > =20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > -Jim >=20 >=20 > On 9/28/2015 9:17 PM, Kazuyuki Ashimura wrote: > Hi Dan, Jim Larson, Jim Barnett, Debbie and all, > =20 > 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. > =20 > 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. > =20 > 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. > =20 > What d you think? > =20 > Maybe the ML could be a public one. > =20 > Thanks, > =20 > Kazuyuki > =20 > =20 > =20 > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Deborah Dahl = <[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 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Larson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:24 AM > To: Dan Burnett; [email protected] (group); Voice Public List > Subject: Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a close = REUNION? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > 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 >=20 > -Jim >=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 > > >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > =20 > -- > Kaz Ashimura, W3C Staff Contact for Auto, WoT, TV, MMI, Voice and Geo > Tel: +81 3 3516 2504 > =20 > =20 >=20 >=20 > =20 > -- > Kaz Ashimura, W3C Staff Contact for Auto, WoT, TV, MMI, Voice and Geo > Tel: +81 3 3516 2504 > =20 --Apple-Mail=_B112589D-3BA5-49C2-BE2F-568898059CDD Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><base href=3D"x-msg://393/"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; ">Yes, I agree with both of these suggestions as = well. Even if the www-voice list remains only as a forward to a = generic W3C list, it would be good for the alias to remain if = possible.<div><br></div><div>And an alumni list sounds fun = :)</div><div><br></div><div>-- dan</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 29, = 2015, at 1:22 PM, Michael Bodell wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = lang=3D"EN-US" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple"><div class=3D"WordSection1" = style=3D"page: WordSection1; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">It = would be good to keep the public list up too, since people ask questions = about recommendations on the list from time to time. The = recommendations say things like: =93Comments for this specification are = welcomed to<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: = underline; ">[email protected]</a><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(archives).=94<o:p></o:p></sp= an></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: = 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; = ">From:</span></b><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kazuyuki = Ashimura [mailto:[email protected]]<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, September 29, 2015 = 7:20 AM<br><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jim = Larson<br><b>Cc:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Deborah Dahl; Jim Barnett; = James Larson;<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" style=3D"color: blue; = text-decoration: underline; ">[email protected]</a>; Voice Public = List<br><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: ALL: Thoughts and = thanks as the VBWG comes to a close REUNION?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Jim Larson <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; ">[email protected]</a>> = wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style=3D"border-top-style: none; = border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: = initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; = border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; = padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: = 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in; "><div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">Kazuyuki,<br><br>I think this is a great idea, would = you be willing to build a public mailing = list?<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">Please let me check within the = Team.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = ">Kazuyuki<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "> <o:p></o:p></div></div><blockquote style=3D"border-top-style: = none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: = initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; = border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; = padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: = 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in; "><div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><br>Regards,<br><br>-Jim<o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><br><br>On 9/28/2015 9:17 PM, Kazuyuki Ashimura = wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div><div><div><blockquote = style=3D"margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">Hi Dan, Jim Larson, Jim Barnett, Debbie and = all,<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: = 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I really appreciate all = the great contribution made by the group<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">to the standardization of voice technologies, and am = proud that<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I could be a part of the = work.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">By the way, as you know, = the group is closing, and that means<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">the VBWG mailing lists (both the Member list and the = public list)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">will be also = closed.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">So I think maybe it would = make sense to have another ML for<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; ">the VBWG alumni to continue some more discussion, e.g, = on<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">the possible reunion at = SpeechTEK.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">What d you = think?<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Maybe the ML could be a = public one.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = ">Kazuyuki<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at = 3:00 AM, Deborah Dahl <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">[email protected]</a>> = wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style=3D"border-top-style: none; = border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: = initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; = border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; = padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: = 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in; "><p class=3D"MsoNormal" = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; ">Dear Dan,<br>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><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Jim = Larson [mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">[email protected]</a>]<br>Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:24 = AM<br>To: Dan Burnett;<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; ">[email protected]</a><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(group); Voice Public = List<br>Subject: Re: ALL: Thoughts and thanks as the VBWG comes to a = close REUNION?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; = margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; ">Thanks so much for participating in one of the most successful = W3C working<br>groups. We achieved much, had meetings at = interesting places, and had great<br>times. 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. At = the 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. Application<br>development took = many months, and new features often took years to make<br>their way onto = the hardware platforms. 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. This made 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. 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. 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. = Simultaneously, 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<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/</a><br>><br>> 2011-07-05<br>> = Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0<br>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/</a><br>><br>> 2010-09-07<br>> = Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1<br>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/</a><br>><br>> = 2008-10-14<br>> Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version = 1.0<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/</a><br>><br>> = 2007-06-19<br>> Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) = 2.1<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/</a><br>><br>> = 2007-04-05<br>> Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) = Version 1.0<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/</a><br>><br>> = 2004-09-07<br>> Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version = 1.0<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis</a><br>><br>> = 2004-03-16<br>> Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version = 1.0<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar</a><br>><br>> = 2004-03-16<br>> Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version = 2.0<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:= blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">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>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-dom-iop/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-dom-iop/</a><br>><br>> = 2015-08-11<br>> XPath Data Model for SCXML<br>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-xpath-dm/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml-xpath-dm/</a><br>><br>> = 2009-12-08<br>> Mobile Web for Social Development = Roadmap<br>><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/mw4d-roadmap/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/mw4d-roadmap/</a><br>><br>> = 2005-05-26<br>> SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values<br>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/ssml-sayas" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:= blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">http://www.w3.org/TR/ssml-sayas</a><br>><br>> 1998-01-28<br>> = Voice Browsers<br>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:= blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">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>><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml30/" target=3D"_blank" = style=3D"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">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><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquo= te></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; 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