Sambad - Computer interfaces for non-literates

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4550 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 721-730

  Dhakhwa, Sagun ^a   Hall, Patrick A V ^a   Ghimire, Ganesh Bahadur ^a   Manandhar, Prakash ^a   Thapa, Ishwor ^a  

^a Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya   (Nepal)

Author keywords

HCI; Illiterate; Speech

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE SYSTEM; USABILITY EXPERIMENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 38149008177     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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