Information Madness

So far you have been talking to people, automated systems over the phone but now you will be able to talk to the website.  IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times.

The protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), is quite similar to the more common Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and will be used to allow users to talk to the web. The spoken web is a network of voice sites created using mobile phones.

According to IBM's India Research Laboratory associate director Manish Gupta, on using the technology, "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," he adds.

Here is the original research paper from IBM Labs India