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To: HumbleDazy who wrote (3806)	9/30/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

New Motorola technology could spark a voice-activated Web <Picture> By Scott Berinato, PC Week Online September 30, 1998 10:10 AM PT "Computer, get my e-mail and the baseball scores from last night." If only it were that easy. Motorola Corp. today will take the first step toward making voice-activated Internet usage a reality with a new language that links the voice and packet worlds: Voice Markup Language, or VoxML. VoxML will link phones and voice-enabled PCs to the Internet through command and control functions. Users could dictate a URL or simply request information and thus initiate a procedure to retrieve the data, according to published reports about the Schaumburg, Ill., company's technology. While the link between phones and the Internet could benefit Motorola, the benefits to end users could be even greater. Voice-activated access could replace complex phone trees in which users have to supply a series of touch tone commands to access data. VoxML is based on HTML, the language used for most Web pages. Motorola will offer a development kit and submit the technology for standards consideration. Although Motorola officials said that many major companies would soon announce support for the technology, none has so far made an announcement. Motorola officials declined further comment.