IBM's DeveloperWorks website has published an article on how to obtain and use open source voice-development tools from the Eclipse Voice Tools Project (VTP). VTP, an offshoot of the Eclipse Web Tools Project, is designed to create a common set of standards-based voice development tools based on the Eclipse SDK.

How can the Voice Tools Project be put to work? Author and IBM engineer Brent Metz explains the process of getting the source code and how to add your own “voice” to it. Whether the changes are for a commercial product or a contribution back to the open source world, the basic concepts remain the same, Metz writes.

The article provides a step-by-step introduction to using the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) to create a new voice-enabled application, or to modify an existing one. Using screen shots of Eclipse's wizard-driven New Dynamic Web Project application, the article explains:

• Setting up and testing the environment
• Enabling the Project source code
• Building a customized action
• Incorporating the change
• Submitting work back to the Project

Earlier this year, Opera Software announced that it had used IBM's embedded ViaVoice technology as the basis of its Electronic Program Guide (EPG) software development kit. Programs based on EDG will allow users control their DVD players, DVRs, and digital TV set-top boxes by talking to them, Opera said.

Read the entire DeveloperWorks article here.

 
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