Alphabet Soup: Sorting Out Emerging Telephony and Speech Specifications

With today's myriad of emerging telephony and speech specifications,developers face the daunting challenge of becoming standards experts while trying to solve real business and technology problems. Understanding standards and emerging specifications is fundamental to understanding IP-based telephony and speech technologies, products and services.
This session will survey the most important standards and emerging specifications, including SIP, CCXML, VoiceXML and MRCP, and present useful guidelines and recommendations for their usage.

Through the lens of a telephony- and speech-standards expert, attendees
will:

• Learn which standards and emerging specifications will have the greatest impact on the speech and telephony ecosystem
• Learn the current state of standards and emerging specifications, including SIP, CCXML, VoiceXML and MRCP, and the status of their ratification by sanctioned standards bodies, such as W3C and IETF
• Learn about the benefits of standards and how they enable multi-vendor interoperability
• Learn how standards and standards compliance can maximize telephony and speech technology investments