Slashdot reports today that IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web. Apparently we will not need mobile web sites or screen readers anymore.

IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 16, @03:22PM
from the dr-spaetzo-gets-a-job dept.

ProgramErgoSum writes to tell us that IBM’s Indian-based research arm is trying to bring a new dimension to web interaction through voice interaction on your mobile phone. Developing a new protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), the hope is to allow users to talk to the web and get a response. Without more explanation I’m hoping this goes about as far as the gopher web. “The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice and the response the company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and the kind of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling, Gupta said.”

Vaporware or the future? Star Trek anyone?

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