Will data prove most popular, with voice access limited to short-haul flights and brief periods at the start and end of long-haul flights?
The operator can add addresses to a person's contact list and, for additional fees, customers can have 24-hour voice access to a nurse or roadside assistance.
Using Siri, drivers will also be able to access messages and have them read aloud, reply via voice, access their contacts on the iPhone and make calls, as well as a variety of other voice commands including music controls.
VOICE ACCESS If you press and hold the home button while the phone is locked, you can still access Voice Control to place a phone call (or FaceTime call) or get to any of the iPhone's other voice commands.
"Voice access to the Internet will be the spark for a powerful transformation in the way the Web is used," said Olivier Houssin, president of Alcatel's e-business group, in a statement.
"One can imagine calling a voice-mail server that has access to your entire e-mail box," with speech-recognition software aiding voice access to e-mail, said Vinton G. Cerf, a founder of the Internet who is now a senior vice president at WorldCom.
A design referred to as the Bluetooth distributed voice access protocol (DVAP) is introduced.
Voice Action: And then there is the voice access aspect of WAP phones.
Give us a little native email or Google Voice access.
If that's true, then why would any site bother hiring BeVocal or Quack to launch voice access?
A constraint on the design of high-capacity voice access points is the potential packet loss experienced by overlapping SCO transmissions.
