[vtp-dev] Voice Tools Project Development Call Minutes: August 25, 2005

[Brent D Metz <bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse Voice Tools Development Call
Minutes

August 25, 2005, 11am EST

Attendees:

Ross Yakulis, Avaya
Frederic Gloppe, HP
Brent D. Metz, IBM
John Muller, Nortel
Jeff Pedigo, SandCherry
Andrew Wahbe, VoiceGenie

The call began with a discussion of
the status of the project's ascention to the release phase. It was stated
that since
it is taking longer than initially planned
to be brought to the Technology PMC there is still time to modify plans
to
incorporate additional contributions.

A discussion of the plans was started
by detailing the contents of the Project plan. There were no comments on
the project
plan. The milestone plan was reviewed.
It was commented that the launching of the web project was not part of
the plan and
a discussion of how web launching integration
with the WTP components would occur. An action item to resolve with the
WTP how
web browsers are launched following
the launch of a web project and how a VoiceXML execution API could be alternatively
plugged in and what criteria would cause
that to occur.

A discussion of the Execution APIs began
and recieved no comments. It was stated that the APIs need further review
from
VoiceXML browser developers to validate
that the API is usable by a wide variety of vendors.

Recognition APIs were discussed with
the main topic of discussion being how to target a generic recognizer.
It was stated
that since MRCP is essentially a technology-neutral
layer amongst recognition APIs that such a generic recognizer API should
strive to follow MRCP's functions closely.
A discussion of how to advertise function sets began. It was agreed that
initial
APIs should focus on SRGS functionality
for things like testing grammars as there is no current editing or conversion
support
for other grammar languages.

The call ended with a notice that there
is a scheduling conflict with the next call and that issues should be discussed
for the
week on the mailing list instead.

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