Test speech-enabled x+v-website!

Hey there!!

You're invited to test this speech-enabled website. Please, give me feedback 
(on www.ridebyvoicefeedback.de.vu) if possible!

On the website you can basically search for a ride from one European capital 
to another and you can enter offerings.
The offerings are totally fictive - the purpose is not really to offer or 
search for  rides.
So you can "play around" and just enter several ride-offerings on your
own 
and try to find them again afterwards.

The website has two modes:

Multimodal Mode: the purpose is to test to what extend voice can support the 
human/machine interaction regarding websites and if  voice could even 
replace keyboard/mouse.

Voice-Only Mode: here the purpose is to find out whether the user is able to 
find informations even without using the GUI for this website, so just by 
using voice as input and output.

You can find the website here:
www.ridebyvoice.de.vu

And you can give me feedback here:
www.ridebyvoicefeedback.de.vu


Thanks a lot and have fun! 

Very nice! Good work.

Are you using the user agent to detect a multimodal browser? When I 
visit your site with Opera 7.55 (which is X+V enabled) I get a page 
which tells me I am NOT using the voice-enabled Opera. Opera 9 works 
fine though.

Thanks,

Le Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:08:32 +0300, Marc White <whitemar@us.ibm.com> a  
écrit:

> Very nice! Good work.
>
> Are you using the user agent to detect a multimodal browser? When I  
> visit your site with Opera 7.55 (which is X+V enabled) I get a page  
> which tells me I am NOT using the voice-enabled Opera. Opera 9 works  
> fine though.
>
> Thanks,
> -Marc


I like he does not use the User Agent for detection. Very good ;).

On the detection page he has a VXML form which is called with XML Events  
(onload). The VXML form just redirects to the "voice_true.mxml" page.

On the same page he also has a script with a setTimeout which redirects to  
the "no_voice.html" page. This one is not within an onload event.

The problem is: the delay is too short for some Internet connections, even  
for some computers. You can get "no_voice" even with Opera 9 (I did
get  
it, because I use VMWare which is a bit slow).

I have posted further comments on my.opera.com forums:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1664480


-- 
ROBO Design - We bring you the future

> I like he does not use the User Agent for detection. Very good ;).
>
> On the detection page he has a VXML form which is called with XML Events 
> (onload). The VXML form just redirects to the "voice_true.mxml"
page.
>
> On the same page he also has a script with a setTimeout which redirects to

> the "no_voice.html" page. This one is not within an onload
event.
>
> The problem is: the delay is too short for some Internet connections, even

> for some computers. You can get "no_voice" even with Opera 9 (I
did get 
> it, because I use VMWare which is a bit slow).
>
> I have posted further comments on my.opera.com forums:
>
> http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1664480
>
>
> -- 
> ROBO Design - We bring you the future
> http://www.robodesign.ro

Hi!

I'm glad you like the website!

Exactly that's how I did the detecttion of the multimodal browser. Since I 
was always working locally on my computer and never trid it really online, I 
never thought of the fact that the setTimeout  might be too short.
I changed that. I hope it works better now!

Thanks for the hints and for the feedback and keep on telling me if anything 
is strange/wrong or whatever!
Kim.