"IBM is donating software for speech-enabled applications to the open source community, a move supported by more than 20 speech vendors and platform companies, including communications systems player Avaya.
"Big Blue said it is donating Reusable Dialog Components (RDCs) to Apache Software Foundation and speech editors to the Eclipse Organization. The idea is to help spur standardization for speech-enabled applications at a time when such platforms are proprietary. In all, the code represents about $10 million worth of development..."
