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IBM's new tech to aid phone users create talking websites
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 19 March 2009, 18:02 IST
New Delhi: Targeting the millions of cellphone users in India, IBM is developing a technology that will allow users to communicate verbally to the web and create voice sites using mobile phones. "India now has over 360 million cell phone subscribers. Last month we added 15 million," said Manish Gupta, IBM India Research Laboratory Associate Director. He pointed out that the research technology targets ordinary mobile phone users, all of whom may not be literate.
"The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice and the response the company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. The kinds of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling," Gupta said.
"People will talk to the web and the web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the Internet. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites," Gupta said. The technology will be based on its new protocol Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP). The new protocol would be similar to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
