Whats the history of VoiceXML?
The VoiceXML language is a product of the VoiceXML Forum, an industry consortium led by AT&T, IBM, Lucent and Motorola. The Forum was created to develop and promote the standards necessary to jump-start the growth of speech-enabled Internet applications. In August 1999, the forum released version 0.9 of the VoiceXML specification. The final 1.0 specification was released in March 2000 after industry review and comment. Though the VoiceXML forum was led by industry heavyweights, it needed to make VoiceXML an official standard to guarantee the widespread industry support that would make VoiceXML a success. In May 2000, the Forum submitted the VoiceXML 1.0 specification to the W3C, where it was accepted by the Voice Browser working group as the basis for developing a standard language for interactive voice response applications. VoiceXML 2.0 became a Full W3C Recommendation in March of 2005. VoiceXML 2.1 became a W3C Candidate Recommendation in June of 2005. At the time of this writing Vo
