Ideas are like open boxes of delicious food lying in front of hungry grad students. If you have an idea, go and (implement)eat it (well, at least ideally). Some years ago, I discussed with somebody the idea of a voice mark up language, pretty much like XML. The idea is: because transferring voice over any network channel is an expensive proposition, one can synthesize the voice at one end, convert it to an XML like stream, send it across and render it on the other end. Of course, both ends have a supporting engine.
www.kirusa.com has implemented the idea - supposedly in a similar way, just eliminating the need of an engine at both ends, and instead bringing both ends together on a gateway running the engine.
No wonder carriers would only use this for SMS and not telephony (no marks for guessing why!)
Alas! If I were a bit less lazier.
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Wouldn't the content serialisation be expensive. Marshalling and demarshalling is not very efficient. So I'm not sure if telephony is viable.
I should find out more. I didn't know that voice recognition technology was that well developed!
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