Although this article by eWEEK's Anne Chen is oriented towards mobile phone access to web content, the implications to Linux-based intelligent interconnected devices are not hard to extrapolate. Chen examines the emerging technologies and trends in this hot new arena, and clarifies the differences between alternatives techniques such as “content scraping” and VoiceXML. Chen writes . . .

“. . . despite the challenges, experts are optimistic that voice will quickly emerge as an important interface for e-commerce. 'Access on mobile devices will soon outpace personal computers, and as we understand the
power of our mobile device, we're going to start wanting
to hear the information we currently access on the Web,' said Elizabeth Herrell, an analyst with Giga Information Group Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif.”

” . . . along with answering the build-or-buy question, [developers] adding voice access will need to weigh whether to go with proprietary voice technologies [e.g. scraping], which can be quicker and cheaper to deploy, or stick with a standards-based approach, which should be more robust in the long run.”

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