A Dynamic Voice Portal for Delivery of Cultural Content

Many companies today are providing customer services via the Web and the telephone. Demand for providing Web data in audio form is increasing every day. Voice response facilities are used for various kinds of information over the phone: time, weather, horoscopes, lottery results, sports events, news, etc. VoiceXML is an enabling technology for creating a streamlined speech-based interface for web-based information services. Speech technology, as it improves, will become a very natural and powerful interface for ubiquitous access to information. Moreover, VoiceXML applications are available through computers or through the telephone, which is a universal means of communication. In this paper, we describe a dynamic speech-enabled system powered by VoiceXML in which the available information is dynamically generated by PHP.