[vtp-dev] Voice Tools Project Development Call Minutes: July 12, 2005

[Brent D Metz <bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse Voice Tools Development Call Minutes
 
July 12, 2005, 11am EST
 
Attendees:
 
David Varnes
Joe Oh, Audium
Jeff Fried, Empirix
Brent D. Metz, IBM
Lenora Wright, IBM
Jeff Pedigo, SandCherry
John Buttitto, SandCherry
Michael Greenawalt, TellMe
Derek Barnes, VoiceGenie
 
The call began with a summary of the week's efforts, notably
the completion of the Eclipse Voice Tools Project's
SpeechTEK presentation. The presentation was offered to anyone who is interested
in seeing it ahead of time to
help communicate the project. A face-to-face meeting during SpeechTEK
was discussed.
 
The project's scope and the initial project plan was discussed.
Due to the overwhelming interest in standards-based markup
editing, Brent stated that the project plan would focus on markup editors
as the primary focus of the initial 1.0 project plan.
SISR/ECMAScript validation and content assist were brought up as examples
of additional innovation that is possible in the
markup editors. Other examples for markup-oriented tooling included HP's
contributions of wizards and schema support 
or grammar format (ABNF <-> XML) converters.
 
The point was raised that several implementations differ
in what they consider to be legal syntax. It was agreed to follow up
offline with some examples. It was stated that implementations which required
violations of the standards would not be
accomodated.
 
Callers not on last week's call were asked about their
position on contributing to the project and what they were interested
in seeing in the project's initial release. One participant stated an interest
in contributing annotation tooling, testing resources
and test fixtures to make testing of the standard markup possible.
 
A discussion of working on a joint article on how to extend
or contribute to the Voice Tools Project source tree occured. Several
participants expressed interest in creating the article, which would be
published on IBM's developerWorks web site.

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Brent D. Metz
Enterprise Voice Tools
bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
- Alan Kay