Speech Synthesizers...Audio recorders...DTMF recognizers...Speech Recognizers...Speech verifiers...a fully functioning, media-rich application needs a lot of components to work together. Until now, all of these components had to be provided by a single vendor, or required extensive custom programming to integrate them. MRCP changes all this. The Media Resource Control Protocol allows you to seamlessly manage diverse media resources and provides a common language to speak to all of these devices. With MRCP, vendors can compete on the basis of their strengths, rather than attempting to create an all-inclusive, yet potentially mediocre package. Therefore, you are empowered to take the best product from each vendor, creating a speech application package that is tailored to your particular needs. In essence, MRCP is a protocol specifically designed to address the need for client control of media processing resources such as Speech Recognition and TTS engines. LumenVox supports MRCP v1 and 2 (NLMSL). For more information visit: http://www.ietf.org

LumenVox has implemented the W3C's SISR working draft, which is also part of the VXML 2.0 specification. SISR allows grammar authors to embed snippets of JavaScript code into their SRGS grammars, to automatically transform what a speaker says into a format understandable to an application. With LumenVox's Semantic Tags, callers can say, "September thirteenth two thousand four, " and your application will understand "2004-09-13."

LumenVox is committed to supporting the working draft. As the draft evolves, we will support both the new and old drafts, so application developers can be confident their grammars and tags will perform to specification.