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Voice Web Solutions Releases SALT Development Tool for Creating Voice-Enabled Web Content.
Joins Speech Industry Leaders as Member of the SALT Forum.

Seattle, Washington – March 17, 2003 – Voice Web Solutions, Inc., a developer of tools for speech technology companies, announced today that they have joined the SALT Forum and released a SALT developer tool called Voice Web Studio™.

The Voice Web Studio product is an extension to Macromedia Dreamweaver MX™ that phenomenally enhances how developers create voice-enabled Web content. Voice Web Studio is the first tool that enables average Web developers to use any scripting language to extend the reach of existing Web sites to any telephony system, wireless device or handheld while using the same Web authoring environment. Voice is the next logical step for the evolution of the Web and the accessibility of content to a broader audience. Developers can create speech interfaces that mimic voice-activated telephony systems or build wireless applications that allow multimodal interaction with Web pages, graphics, Web based forms, and Flash animations. The wide variety of uses for multimodal technology in applications include:

  • Web-based forms and Customer service
  • Voice navigated Web sites and internet kiosks
  • Workforce automation in mobile ERP and CRM
  • Distribution of online publishing and e-learning

“By using speech as another input mode within Web pages, Voice Web Studio increases the usability and accessibility of existing Web sites. Voice Web Studio enables companies to increase customer satisfaction, retention, and reach through existing applications and services by creating Web pages that supply multimodal access to information, including speaking and listening to users on PDAs, laptops or desktops,” says Brian Ty Graham, Chief Architect of Voice Web Solutions.

The SALT Forum, founded by Cisco, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips and SpeechWorks, developed the SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) specification as a graceful extension to existing Web programming models and markup languages such as HTML, XHTML and XML. SALT facilitates speech interfaces that reside alongside traditional Web input/output modes such as text, audio, video and graphics.

"Development tools that support SALT are important for the adoption of SALT across the value chain and Voice Web Studio is a welcome addition to the professional Web developer's toolkit," said Rob Kassel, SALT Forum representative. "By supporting SALT in one of the most popular Web development environments, it enables a large number of developers to build telephony and multimodal applications quickly and easily using their established skills. The SALT Forum is pleased to see Voice Web Solutions adding support for SALT, since these kinds of tools will only make it easier for developers to work with SALT and will drive adoption of SALT throughout the industry."

Voice Web Studio supports .NET, J2EE and other programming languages by leveraging Dreamweaver MX, the world’s most popular Web authoring tool. By adding support for the SALT specification within Macromedia’s Dreamweaver MX development platform, Voice Web Studio enables Web sites to recognize speaker input, generate text-to-speech and play recorded audio. While Voice Web Studio currently supports SALT 1.0, it’s inherent extensibility supports future multimodal and proprietary platforms. Speech technology is now a cost-effective, simple option for enhancing content presentation on the visual Web by providing multimodal voice capabilities.

About the SALT Forum
The SALT Forum brings together a diverse group of companies sharing a common interest in developing and promoting speech technologies for multimodal and telephony applications. Founded in 2001 and representing over 50 technology leaders, the SALT Forum seeks to develop a royalty-free standard that augments existing XML-based markup languages to provide spoken access to many forms of content through a wide variety of devices. Additional information on the SALT specification is available on the Forum's Web site, www.SaltForum.org.

About Voice Web Solutions
Voice Web Solutions is the premier provider of tools for developing robust SALT and VoiceXML speech applications that enable mobile and accessibility solutions to your most valuable information through natural voice commands. Voice Web Solutions’ customers include companies developing multimodal and telephony deployments within various vertical markets. Voice Web Solutions is a privately held Seattle-based company founded by pioneers in the Voice Web development community. With groundbreaking development tools, Voice Web Solutions is leading the charge for the adoption of speech technology for the accessibility, telephony, wireless and telematics markets. For more information about Voice Web Studio call us at +1 (206) 338-6632 or visit www.VoiceWebSolutions.net.

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