Talk to the web: A new tech from IBM

IT major IBM recently developed a telecom web browsing technology that would allow users to talk to the web and create voice sites using mobile phones.

According to IBM Research's website, Telecom Web Browser would enable browsing the Web of voice applications through an ordinary phone while providing similar experience as is available on the World Wide Web.

With a purpose of interconnecting the web and voice, IBM has developed a new protocol - Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP) - analogous to HTTP, that provides a mechanism to connect telephony voice applications with each other. The new protocol would enable voice-driven transactions that can span multiple cross-enterprise voice applications thus providing a seamless browsing experience to the telephony user, added IBM's research site.

People will talk to the web and the web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the Internet. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites. The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice. The company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.