Computer Supported Telecommunication Applications (CSTA)

is a widely adopted ECMA/ISO standard suite for global and

enterprise communications. As it becomes evident that spoken

language systems are playing an ever important role in

telecommunications, CSTA has been revised to include a

specification on spoken language interfaces so as to promote the

interoperability and adoption of spoken language technologies.

The new specification shares the same design philosophy as the

Speech Application Language Tags, or SALT, that provides

simple yet rich functionality for spoken language processing.

The tight integration of speech into the telecommunication

infrastructure not only presents many technical benefits but also

ushers in an era that can potentially make spoken language

technologies even more prevalent in our daily lives. This paper

describes the design considerations for the specification, and

shows how this new standard can be used in conjunction with

other standards to create powerful speech applications.

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In: Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing

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