A new programming language known as "VoicePHP" has been announced by an Indian startup with the aim to bring simplicity and universality to Web-enabled voice applications.

If adhered to TringMe, founded by Lucent and Texas Instruments (TXN), Yusuf Motiwala in Bangalore, India in 2007, the concept is not new and it's just a voice-enabled version of the familiar Web programming language PHP (which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Processor").

In its website, TringMe wrote, "It's not an extension to PHP. In fact it's the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text." It is being hoped by TringMe that VoicePHP will serve as a more powerful, flexible, and easy to use language for voice-Web mashups than VoiceXML. Till date, VoiceXML has been the most widely used tool for creating such applications.

Popular Technology blog GigaOm's Om Malik, wrote on the website, "It will also be going up against Ribbit, now owned by BT (BT), which is betting on the large-scale adoption of Flash and hopes its Flash-centric solution would become the engine that powers web-voice applications."