Computer Talk and Microsoft have teamed up to create xTalk, which delivers Computer Talk's speech applications on Microsoft Speech Server. Building on Microsoft's .NET SALT-based platform, Computer Talk's elegant human interface designs allow for seamless, natural interactions.
SALT, a lightweight set of extensions to existing markup languages, particularly HTML and XHTML, enables multimodal and telephony access to information, applications, and Web services from:
PC's
Table PCs
Telephones
Cell phones
Smartphones
Wireless PDAs
Microsoft Speech Platform Advantages:
Open standards based - builds on the open industry standard, SALT
Industry-standard hardware requirements
Unified platform for telephony and multimodal interaction - applications can be developed and deployed to both multimodal and voice-only devices. This is the only architecture available today for multimodal interaction.
Strong industry support - Intel, ComputerTalk, SpeechWorks, and more than 70 other SALT industry leaders support the architecture and platform
Designed for enterprise-level security, scalability, reliability-provisions for secure channels, multiple configurations, load balancing, scale out, and stateless servers - all contribute to a robust and flexible architecture.
Builds on open Web standards, letting companies add speech functionality to new and existing applications on their current Web infrastructure.
Familiar developer tools and a broad developer base. Developers familiar with tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio® can quickly learn to incorporate speech applications on this platform using standard Web programming techniques.
