HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol – ReadWriteWeb

IBM’s research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create ‘voice’ sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today.

Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), a protocol designed to seamlessly connect telephony voice applications, will enable users to browse across voice applications by navigating the Hyperspeech (the voice hyperlink) content in a voice application.

“People will talk to the Web and the Web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the Internet. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites,” IBM India Research Laboratory Associate Director Manish Gupta told the Economic Times.

In a 2007 paper describing the technology (PDF), IBM scientists explain the concepts of Hyperspeech using this scenario:

Jonathan is a busy salesman who travels frequently. His work typically requires him to stay in a place for a few days. Once he is in a new place, he has to go around looking for grocery stores in his locality for his daily needs. He prefers taking phone numbers of the identified stores and places orders on the phone subsequently. Home delivery services deliver the goods to his home. However, often the home delivery boys don’t accept credit cards and even if some do, Jonathan tries paying by cash since he doesn’t want to share his credit card information with untrusted home delivery agents. This often causes problems since he often runs out of cash.

During his travel, he visits a city and finds out that there is a yellow pages service in the city that he can call up to receive phone numbers of several businesses. He promptly calls up the service and uses the telephony voice application to browse through the grocery stores in the vicinity of his hotel.

On Jonathan’s prompt, the call gets transferred to a grocery store and goes to the voice application of the store. Jonathan easily specifies the items he needs to buy from the cataloger. The order is placed and a delivery guarantee is made within half an hour

To his surprise, the grocery store’s voice application also accepts credit cards securely over phone. Jonathan selects the option and his call gets transferred to yet another voice application of a secure payment gateway. The secure payment gateway already knows about the amount of money the grocery store wants to charge to Jonathan, and securely authorizes the payment by taking in Jonathan’s credit card details and transacting with the credit card company’s authorization system.

The delivery boy comes within half-hour and delivers the goods to Jonathan.

Given India’s position as the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, this new protocol may be particularly useful in India, where mobile phone sales are booming despite our current economic crisis.

If you’re interested in reading the entire paper, HSTP : Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol, you can download it here (PDF).

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we arent going to see any ” economic recovery “, i have been telling friends and scaring them, luckily many are still in india and can smile at my views -

here are the facts :

1. there are more people under the age of 25 in India than there are people in the US
2. there are more dollar millionaires in India than there are people in Germany
3. all of the worlds electronics, and most of its consumer durables come from Asia
4. the average asian wage for SKILLED labour is 1 / 2 of what UNSKILLED labour is paid in the US
5. to bring the knife to the bone – 5 years before the iPhone simialr devices were on the market in Hong Kong, where you have to change ur phone every 3 months if you want to have the latest, and flexible contracts make it possible
6. for those of your reading in the US and the EU you know that 24 months is a normal contract here
7. India produces 400 K engineers, china does 600K  per year the US produces under 80K, all of the EU produces 100 Keven if these figures are debatable, im not sure if they are of if they are not,
8. my point is Micrsoft hires a graduate engineer for far less than it hires an engineer for in the US, with the current crisis its no secret where the hiring and where the firing will take place
9. its also no secret that while the quality of education is dipping in the West it is steadily rising in Asia
10. big govt. in the West ( read US ) is sucking up all the money it keeps printing, and to keep having an excuse to print more currency notes it allows un regulated financial market to float very dangerous instruments to manage this the fictional increase in GDP ( im not an economist but how you can use the vlaue of goods sold in a fiscal year to calculate GDP, when most of the sales are credit backed is beyond me )
11. having bought and sold without money in the bank the West is today faced with a crucial dilemna – how do you exhort people to ” go out and shop”  when a ) they are out of work and strapped for cash and b ) how do you get banks to subsidise credit when the neither the instruments used to secure the credit nor the collateral are watertight ?
12. and why arent they watertight ?
13. bcos the west over taxed and over borrowed and over spent its way into this mess without bothering to educate its populace to compete against the frugal Asian.
14. no, there will be no recovery, the West has mortgaged itself to Asia; the GCC and China in particular. They need fresh credit to cover the pot they lost via stupid gambles. The house has your shirt, knows your cards, is keeping all its eyes on you and you are at the table so you can win big to pay back your huge debts. If you break even you will live, if you dont, well this is Vegas.

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CHINA and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder of world power, but their approaches to the state and to power could not be more different.

Two days after last month’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, I met with a Chinese friend who was visiting India on business. He was shocked as much by the transparent and competitive minute-by-minute reporting of the attack by India’s dozens of news channels as by the ineffectual response of the government. He had seen a middle-class housewife on national television tell a reporter that the Indian commandos delayed in engaging the terrorists because they were too busy guarding political big shots. He asked how the woman could get away with such a statement.

I explained sarcasm resonates in a nation that is angry and disappointed with its politicians. My friend switched the subject to the poor condition of India’s roads, its dilapidated cities and the constant blackouts. Suddenly, he stopped and asked: “With all this, how did you become the second-fastest growing economy in the world? China’s leaders fear the day when India’s government will get its act together.”

The answer to his question may lie in a common saying among Indians that “our economy grows at night when the government is asleep.” As if to illustrate this, the Mumbai stock market rose in the period after the terrorist attacks. Two weeks later, in several state elections, incumbents were ousted over economic issues, not security.

All this baffled my Chinese friend, and undoubtedly many of his countrymen, whose own success story has been scripted by an efficient state. They are uneasy because their chief ally, Pakistan, is consistently linked to terrorism while across the border India’s economy keeps rising disdainfully. It puzzles them that the anger in India over the Mumbai attacks is directed against Indian politicians rather than Muslims or Pakistan.

The global financial crisis has definitely affected India’s growth, and it will be down to perhaps 7 percent this year from 8.7 percent in 2007. According to my friend, China is hurting even more. What really perplexes the Chinese, he said, is that scores of nations have engaged in the same sorts of economic reforms as India, so why is it that it’s the Indian economy that has become the developing world’s second best? The speed with which India is creating world-class companies is also a shock to the Chinese, whose corporate structure is based on state-owned and foreign companies.

I have no satisfactory explanation for all this, but I think it may have something to do with India’s much-reviled caste system. Vaishyas, members of the merchant caste, who have learned over generations how to accumulate capital, give the nation a competitive advantage. Classical liberals may be right in thinking that commerce is a natural trait, but it helps if there is a devoted group of risk-taking entrepreneurs around to take advantage of the opportunity. Not surprisingly, Vaishyas still dominate the Forbes list of Indian billionaires.

In a much-discussed magazine article last year, Lee Kwan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore, raised an important question: Why does the rest of the world view China’s rise as a threat but India’s as a wonderful success story? The answer is that India is a vast, unwieldy, open democracy ruled by a coalition of 20 parties. It is evolving through a daily flow of ideas among the conservative forces of caste and religion, the liberals who dominate intellectual life, and the new forces of global capitalism.

The idea of becoming a military power in the 21st century embarrasses many Indians. This ambivalence goes beyond Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent struggle for India’s freedom, or even the Buddha’s message of peace. The skeptical Indian temper goes back to the 3,500-year-old “Nasadiya” verse of the Rig Veda, which meditates on the creation of the universe: “Who knows and who can say, whence it was born and whence came this creation? The gods are later than this world’s creation. Who knows then whence it first came into being?” When you have millions of gods, you cannot afford to be theologically narcissistic. It also makes you suspect power.

Both the Chinese and the Indians are convinced that their prosperity will only increase in the 21st century. In China it will be induced by the state; in India’s case, it may well happen despite the state. Indians expect to continue their relentless march toward a modern, democratic, market-based future. In this, terrorist attacks are a noisy, tragic, but ultimately futile sideshow.

However, Indians are painfully aware that they must reform their government bureaucracy, police and judiciary — institutions, paradoxically, they were so proud of a generation ago. When that happens, India may become formidable, a thought that undoubtedly worries China’s leaders.

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Ed note : i love how ” pop ” media jumps on a bandwagon soon as some overpaid ” think tank ” researcher gets up on stage and avers what we internet users have known for about 10 years .. LOL … these dunderheads are the keepers of the economy and that is precisely why its tanking …

any fools donkey can tell you that any programmer can help you circumvent the IT rules of the house … not allowing people to communicate may help keep the office quite but it will ruin business because anybody with a real idea has to communcate it, the ones that are following your company rules and reciting after you are sucking on your oxygen at a time when 500 million Indians, 600 million Chinese, millions of South Americans, millions of Russians are doing everything they can and more to improve life at home by working on the cheap for anyone who cares to pay -

Businesses in the EU and the US ( the so called West ) that choke access to these idea rich, capital starved idea pools are only hastening their inevitable downfall, schools in the West are hard pressed to find good engineers, doctors, scientists, programmers and mathematicians  ( Mr Bill Gates himself is on record saying he has never met so many young, bright, educated professionals as he has in India .. )  because the average student is gearing up to slot himself into some unionised median wage job where he is only a consumer, a monkey to turn that wrench; neither has the West invested in creating future – proof engineering jobs, nor has it invested in renewable energy, nor has it spent enough to educate its populace on the advantages of Information technologies, nor has it re structured its schooling to allow the best ideas to stay in the country – the best ideas are getting shipped to China and India for research and develop enabling these economies to learn, adapt and catch up, its an exponential growth – since the mid 80s when IT started to take off more dollar millionaires employees have been created in India than the US or the EU ( as of 2000, India had 80 million Dollar millioanires, thats the entire population of Germany ) – why ? arent Americans smart enough ?

The West does not know how to save its income, they blow it all up on stupid entertainment ( Im not sure how else to categorise 200 million USD spent on making tripe like ” Titanic “at a time when millions of children starve to death in Sub Saharan Africa – the EU and the US have built their capital markets, lifestyle and consumer spending by preying on poor economies – now these same Western societies – economies are hoping that their former prey will open their purse strings to help them maintain the former opulence.

The head of Infosys India has no 300 million yatch; I personally would prefer that the Western economies that profited from years of growing consumer spending fulled by low interest rates just die out, lets replace them with a global economy where your idea comes from smart people ( not white or yellow or blue or offshore ) , where you capital comes not from speculative players but from savings and solid business plans, where you develop and keep markets abroad and at home via innovation ( thus engendering a culture of free thinking and innovation ) and one where the future is what you make it rather than what you are forced to inherit after each economic bubble – we can do it.

And to make it happen all we really need to do is install an IM and tap into the Billion people on the Internet, atleast 5 % of who are really smart. It wasnt the Industrial Revolution that opened up the world for the common man, it was the Movable Type; it wasnt capitalism or socialism or government intervention that drove the French Revolution, it was ideas.

Ideas are to be gifted. If you dont whats the idea worth anyway ?

I hope I have made my stance on IMs clear – set the herd free … they arent your slaves, if your staff is under producing due to IMs then you have the wrong people in the wrong jobs; any noob can show you how to ignore messages that decrese productivity, you dont need to be Albert Einsten to hang out a ” Do not disturb ” sign.

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