Speech-Enabling The WWW

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global hypertext system for efficiently authoring, sharing and distributing knowledge. Electronic information revolutionizes information interchange by replacing printed paper, a passive intermediary, by a computational device capable of disseminating and manipulating digital information. By connecting together such computational devices around the world, The WWW has the potential to enable the pooling of information resources to achieve a knowledge base whose sum total is greater than the individual parts making up this global information system — Ram97b.