NTT Research and Development 2009 Review of Activities

Overview

The Network Service Platform is intended to allow third parties to easily develop new services that involve cooperation between the Web and telecommunications on the network. This technology provides telecom components that facilitate use of telecom functions and service coordination functions that allows those components to be used together with Web services. This year we implemented new functions such as the Parlay-X^* media control function including voice recognition component. We also established basic technology for improving the performance of the service coordination functions (by several orders of magnitude over commercially available products).

Features

• Telecom components for call control, speech synthesis and recognition, and other telecom functions, and development tools for improving the usability of the components
• More advanced service coordination (adaptability to the user's circumstances and higher performance) with the service coordination functions
• Greater control and higher processing performance through unified management of protection of disturbance, authentication and authorization, and other non-functional required processing
• Interoperability with web components based on standard technology (Web services)

Application scenarios

• Development of applications that use telecom functions by Web technologists
  • Schedule confirmation service using voice recognition
  • Service for character display according to conversational content
  • Building management service supporting voice communication with maintenance personnel

• * Parlay-X: Standard specifications for interfaces that allows control of telecom functions from the Web.