IBM's Indian research division has developed a new protocol that will help users create "Voice sites" on the Internet, reports.
The protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), is quite similar to the more common Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and will be used to allow users to talk to the web. The spoken web is a network of voice sites created using mobile phones. The driving force behind this technology is the rather large mobile subscriber base that India boasts of. With 360 million mobile phone users out there (and counting), this is a market no one could dare to ignore - and IBM knows that. The technology targets ordinary mobile phone users, all of whom may not be literate and would be glad to get some technological aid.
According to IBM's India Research Laboratory associate director Manish Gupta, on using the technology, "People will talk to the web and the web will respond." The research technology is analogous to the internet. "Unlike personal computers, it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites," he adds.
This technology was featured in IBM's annual Five in Five list featured earlier here on Techtree.
IBM has already tried out the technology in some pilot projects in various states of the country and claim to have received tremendous response.
source : http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Users_Can_Now_Talk_to_the_Web_Courtesy_IBM/551-100064-643.html
