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Opera Software has unveiled a voice-enabled EPG which lets users interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV settop boxes.

Users will be able to navigate through channels and such on their TVs by using simple voice commands.

"Opera is a leading player in making technology easy and accessible for people in their everyday lives, and the voice-enabled EPG is not science fiction, but a compelling demonstration of what you can do with Web technologies for home media," said IBM's director of Multimodal and Voice Portal, Igor Jablokov.

According to TechTree.com,

"The voice-enabled EPG is a multimodal (or multiple forms of input and output such as speech, keyboard or handwriting) project aimed at increasing awareness in the consumer electronics sector for the benefits of voice-enabled Web technologies.

The voice-enabled EPG is written in XHTML+Voice or X+V multimodal programming language and will be available in English. Opera developed the application in partnership with IBM."

Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner said, "End-users can customize the appearance and functionality to their liking. The integration of voice with data is a natural evolution, and has enormous potential in the integrated home media market. Through our efforts with IBM, we hope to quickly get HTML and JavaScript-based applications talking."

Opera will soon launch its voice-enabled edition of the Opera browser for PCs.

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