Technology Trends

I've written several articles about speech and multimodal applications. The articles are particitioned into five categories:

Languages for developing speech applications
Title Source Date
Extending VoiceXML's Impact to New Markets Speech Technology Magazine November/December 2007
SISR: The Standard Semantic Interpretation Language Speech Technology Magazine July/August 2007
Toward Natural Language Processing Speech Technology Magazine November/December 2006
Microsoft Joins the VoiceXML Express Speech Technology Magazine E-blast April 5, 2006
Metalanguages and AJAX Speech Technology Magazine January/February, 2006
VoiceXML on Steroids Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2005
SCXML—A New Language for Controlling Processes Speech Technology Magazine September/October, 2005
Voice User Interface Design for Novice and Experienced Users Practical Spoken Dialog Systems (Text, Speech and Language Technology)by Deborah Dahl (Editor) Kluwer academic Publishers, 2004.  
Technology Trends: VoiceXML 2.0 — A Real Standard for a Real World Speech Technology Magazine March/April, 2005
Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier) February, 2005

State-of-the-art Speech Application Development

 Speech Technology Magazine January/February, 2005
Technology Trends: MRCP Enables New Speech Applications Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2004
Technology Trends: What's New with VoiceXML 2.0? Speech Technology Magazine September/October, 2004
Technology Trends: Beyond VoiceXML Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2004
VoiceXML Review Volume 4, Issue 2 - March/April 2004
VoiceXML lets you talk to computers Network World March 22, 2004
Technology Trends: the W3C Speech Interface Frameowork Speech Technology Magazine March/April, 2003
Technology Trends: EMMA--W3C's Extended MultiModal Annotation Language Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2003
State of Speech Standards Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2003
Technology Trends: Speech Wars--Round 2 Speech Technology Magazine May/June, 2003
VoiceXML and SALT: Approaches for Developing Telephony Applications Informit.com September 6, 2002
Technology Trends: Telephony Enable Your Web Site Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2002
VoiceXML and SALT: How are they different, and why Speech Technology Magazine May/June 2002
VoiceXML Update: VoiceXML2.0 Speech Technology Magazine January/February 2002

 

Multiple user interfaces from a single source
Title Source Date
Developing Unimodal and Multimodal User Interfaces Speech Strategy News Aug, 2006
Multimodal Applications’ Architectures Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2006
Technology Trends: Consistent User Input Options and Instructions Across Multiple User Interfaces Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2005
Balancing Customer Support Options Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2004
Technology Trends: Developing Verbal, Visual, and Multimodel User Interfaces for the Same Application Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2004
Should You Build a Multimodal Interface for Your Web Site? Informit.com August 30, 2002
Technology Trends: New User Devices Speech Technology Magazine March/April, 2004

 

Multimodal applications
Title Source Date
Multimodal Mobile Apps Will Thrive Speech Technology Magazine May 2007
Speaking and Listening to the World Wide Web Speech Technology Magazine September/October, 2006
Standards Languages for Developing Multimodal Interaction
 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction July 26, 2005
How to Converse with a Virtual Agent by Speaking and Listening Using Standard W3C Languages
 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction July 26, 2005

Technology Trends: New Devices

 Speech Technology Magazine March/April, 2004
Technology Trends Ink and VoiceXML Speech Technology Magazine September/October, 2003
Conversational Agents Let Users Treat Computers as People Speech Technology Magazine February/March, 1999
Designing the User Interface for Multimodal Speech and Pen-based Gesture Applications: State-of-the-Art Systems and Future Research Directions Computer Interaction, 2000, vol. 15, no. 4 263-332 (reprinted in Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, ed. by J. Caroll), Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley, 2001) August, 2000
Magic Words and Computers that See Speech Technology Magazine October/November, 1999

 

Speech Application Design and Techniques
Title Source Date
Escaping from Directed Dialogues Speech Technology Magazine January/February 2008
Policies and Technologies for Improving the Customer Experience Speech Technology Magazine March 2007
Mom and Pop Shops Gain a Voice
 Speech Technology Magazine May/June, 2006
Improve the User Experience Speech Technology Magazine March/April, 2006
Bail Your Customers out of Voice Application Jail Speech Technology Magazine December 5, 2005
Ten Criteria for Measuring Effective Voice User Interfaces Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2005
Technology Trends: Synthetic Interviews - Beyond History Calls Speech Technology Magazine May/June, 2005
Ten Guidelines for Designing a Successful Voice User Interface Speech Technology Magazine January/February 2005
Technology Trends: Profiles for Speech Application Users Speech Technology Magazine May/June, 2004
Technology Trends: Help Users Speak Speech Technology Magazine January/February, 2004
Technology Trends: Controlled Languages and Speech Prompts Speech Technology Magazine July/August, 2003
Technology Trends: Uniform Basic Function Commands SpeechTechnology Magazine January/February 2003
Technology Trends: The What, Why, and How of Usability Testing Speech Technology Magazine September/October, 2002
Consistency and Symmetry—and Other Guiding Principles for Designing Speech Applications Informit.com August 23, 2002
Entering Data by Speaking on the Telephone: Three Problems and What to Do about Them Informit.com August 16, 2002

Should You Speech-enable Your Web Site?

 Informit.com August 9, 2002
Technology Trends: Students Develop Innovative Prototype Speech Applications Speech Technology Magazine May/June, 2002
More Prototype Speech Applications developed by Students Speech Technology E-Blast April 1, 2003
Move Over 'Look and Feel:' Make Room for 'Persona' Speech Technology Magazine January/February, 2002
Playing 20 Questions with VoiceXML Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2001
A Single Interactive Help Session Is Worth a Thousand Words of Tutorial Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2001
The Internet's Information Highway Runs Right Through Voice Portals Speech Technology Magazine May/June. 2001
Speech-enabled Appliances Speech Technology Magazine November/December, 2000
Internet Appliances Are Inexpensive, Intuitive, and Conversational Speech Technology Magazine December/January, 2000
Parts of Speech: Building Dialogs Speech Technology Magazine April/May, 1999

 

The Speech Industry
Title Source Date
The Evolution of IVR Systems Speech Technology Magazine June 2008
The Expanding Speech Tech Universe Speech Technology Magazine April 2008