W3C extends Speech Synthesis Markup Language to Asian languages</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="W3C extends Speech Synthesis Markup Language to Asian languages"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="W3C,extends,Speech,Synthesis,Markup,Language,to,Asian,languages"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">07-12-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>W3C extends Speech Synthesis Markup Language to Asian languages</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Massachusetts, USA (eWeek): The World Wide Web Consortium Tuesday announced new work on extensions to components of the Speech Interface Framework that will extend the Speech Synthesis Markup Language to support Asian and other languages and extend speaker verification features into the next version of VoiceXML, version 3.0. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1896825,00.asp " target="blank">www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1896825,00.asp </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show