By "conversational interfaces", we mean a bunch of exploratory work happening around how to make the Web work better with voice-based interactions, including voice assistants.
Hey @w3cdevs, in your "Pipeline" diagram, you include "Conversational Interfaces" but I couldn't find any information about what that means. Is there a different page describing the goals of this segment?
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The Voice Interaction Community Group follows up on the VoiceXML family of specifications standardized in W3C some years ago to watch and see what new standards might be relevant w3.org/community/voiceintera…
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The Voice Assistant Community Group is exploring the general space of standardization needs for voice-based assistants w3.org/community/voice-assis…
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The Conversational Interfaces Community Group focuses more specifically on how to model a dialogue and its expected outcomes w3.org/community/conv/
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The Functional Knowledge Graph Community Group is looking at how to expose Web pages functions to AI assistants w3.org/community/fkg/
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This comes in complement to more settled work, such as the one enabled by the Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition browser APIs developed in the Speech API Community Group w3.org/community/speech-api/
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There is also the accessibility angle of making Web pages more pronounceable being looked at in the Accessible Platform Architecture Working Group
If you want to help make Web pages more pronounceable, a @w3c task force is starting to look at this.
Apr 25, 2019 · 7:29 AM UTC