Voice over Web

The Voice Browser.

A voice browser is a web browser that presents an interactive voice user interface to the user. In addition, it typically provides an interface to the PSTN or a PBX. Just as a visual web browser works with HTML pages, a voice browser operates on pages that specify voice dialogues. Typically these pages are written in VoiceXML, the W3C's standard voice dialog markup language, but other proprietary voice dialogue languages remain in use.

A voice browser presents information aurally, using pre-recorded audio file playback or using text-to-speech software to render textual information as audio. A voice browser obtains information using speech recognition and keypad entry (e.g., DTMF) detection.

As speech recognition and web technologies have matured over the past decade, thousands of voice applications have been deployed commercially and in many cases voice browsers are supplanting traditional proprietary IVR systems. Scores of companies provide voice browsers. These take the form of software, packaged hardware/software solutions or hosted solutions.

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The "Voice over Web"

We need a technology that lets you send your voice through your web browser. It can be done today but the options are

Flash which costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars
Java which takes half an hour to load the Java Runtime Environment
ActiveX which only works on Internet Explorer.

Resources can be found on the internet to implement "Voice over Web" features.

Abbeyphone is one of the links which features Voice over Web technology.

2003UB313: The 10th Planet

Caltech astronomer finds solar system's 10th planet

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California astronomer has discovered what he believes is the 10th planet in our solar system, a group of NASA-funded researchers said on Friday.

The new planet, known as 2003UB313, has been identified as the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun, California Institute of Technology astronomer Michael Brown said.

Brown and colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz have submitted a name for the planet to the International Astronomical Union and are confident it will be designated a planet. Brown did not reveal the proposed name.

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Dinosaur embryos oldest yet

The discovery reveals fascinating details about the life of an ancient plant-eating giant

WASHINGTON - The discovery of the oldest dinosaur embryos ever found is enabling scientists to piece together the lifetime growth of a type of long-necked giant that lived about 190 million years ago.
Years of study have turned up new and fascinating details of Massospondylus carinatus, a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the early Jurassic age in what is now South Africa.

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Kiss From A Rose

Seal's Kiss From a Rose lyrics:

There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh,
The more I get of you,
Stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grave.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grave,
I've been kissed by a rose on the grave,
I've been kissed by a rose
I've been kissed by a rose on the grave,
...And if I should fall along the way
I've been kissed by a rose
...been kissed by a rose on the grave.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain
My power, my pleasure, my pain.
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grave.
Yes I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
And now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grave
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grave.

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