Speech Interface Implementation for Xml Browser

The growing popularity of digital cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDA) is setting new demands for Internet content producers. One problem with these devices is the small visual display. WWW pages are usually designed for traditional desktop computers and they are difficult to view with small displays. In this paper, a solution is presented that uses the audio capabilities of such mobile devices in addition to optional visual display. The idea is to transform XML data into VoiceXML in addition to some traditional display layout language. This approach could also make Internet browsing possible for visually handicapped people.