Speech Services Control (speechsc) ---------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2010-04-02 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): David Oran Eric Burger Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director(s): Gonzalo Camarillo Robert Sparks Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Advisor: Robert Sparks Mailing Lists: General Discussion:speechsc@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman//listinfo/speechsc In Body: subscribe Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/speechsc/index.html Description of Working Group: Many multimedia applications can benefit from having Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), Text to Speech (TTS), and Speaker Verification (SV) processing available as a distributed, network resource. To date, there are a number of proprietary ASR, TTS, and SV API's, as well as two IETF drafts, that address this problem. However, there are serious deficiencies to the existing drafts relating to this problem. In particular, they mix the semantics of existing protocols yet are close enough to other protocols as to be confusing to the implementer. The speechsc Work Group will develop protocols to support distributed media processing of audio streams. The focus of this working group is to develop protocols to support ASR, TTS, and SV. The working group will only focus on the secure distributed control of these servers. The working group will develop an informational RFC detailing the architecture and requirements for distributed speechsc control. In addition, the requirements document will describe the use cases driving these requirements. The working group will then examine existing media-related protocols, especially RTSP, for suitability as a protocol for carriage of speechsc server control. The working group will then propose extensions to existing protocols or the development of new protocols, as appropriate, to meet the requirements specified in the informational RFC. The protocol will assume RTP carriage of media. Assuming session-oriented media transport, the protocol will use SDP to describe the session. The working group will not be investigating distributed speech recognition (DSR), as exemplified by the ETSI Aurora project. The working group will not be recreating functionality available in other protocols, such as SIP or SDP. The working group will offer changes to existing protocols, with the possible exception of RTSP, to the appropriate IETF work group for consideration. This working group will explore modifications to RTSP, if required. It is expected that we will coordinate our work in the IETF with the W3C Mutlimodal Interaction Work Group; the ITU-T Study Group 16 Working Party 3/16 on SG 16 Question 15/16; the 3GPP TSG SA WG1; and the ETSI Aurora STQ. Once the current set of milestones is completed, the speechsc charter may be expanded, with IESG approval, to cover additional uses of the technology, such as the orchestration of multiple ASR/TTS/SV servers, the accommodation of additional types of servers such as simultaneous translation servers, etc. Goals and Milestones: Done Requirements ID submitted to IESG for publication (informational) Done Submit Internet Draft(s) Analyzing Existing Protocols (informational) Done Submit Internet Draft Describing New Protocol (if required) (standards track) Done Submit Drafts to IESG for publication Oct 2006 Submit MRCPv2 specification to IESG Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Sep 2003 Nov 2010 Media Resource Control Protocol Version 2 (MRCPv2) Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC4313 I Dec 2005 Requirements for Distributed Control of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Identification/Speaker Verification (SI/SV), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) Resources