Stanford University researchers aredeveloping technologyfor adding voice to the web that any virtual assistant can access.
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About90 million Americans already use smart speakers.
But Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s voice assistant dominate the market.
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The researchers also have a new vision of the internet controlled by voice.
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Accessibility is one big advantage for an internet controlled by voice.
Sprinks, who is blind, currently uses the internet via voice but isn’t satisfied with his options.
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VoiceXML is a digital document standard for specifying interactive media and voice dialogs between humans and computers.
