IBM Partners Drive Open Source Initiatives for Speech Technologies With Java and Eclipse

Source: WEBSPHERE JOURNAL

Summary:
Based on Java, with tools built on Eclipse, this initiative is aimed at giving speech developers the benefits of open standards

Three IBM partners, Audium, Fluency and Openstream have donated RDCs to the Apache Software Foundation, a leading community for open source software development. RDCs allow developers to plug standard pieces of speech code into their own code to help speed the development of speech applications for new uses.

IBM also announced it will offer WebSphere Voice Toolkit components to Audium for inclusion in the next version of Audium Studio, which is powered by Eclipse. Audium's customers can enjoy expanded functionality from the use of a common tooling platform. Audium Studio is a voice application environment combining the standards of Voice XML with packaged services for Interactive Voice Response applications. It provides a full set of tools to help developers quickly build high quality voice applications and a framework to create, deploy and manage large multi-application voice projects.

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