internetnews.com: IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache

“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…”

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