Speech recognition for illiterate access to information and technology

2006 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Development, ICTD2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 83-92

  Plauché, Madelaine ^a   Nallasamy, Udhyakumar ^a   Pal, Joyojeet ^a   Wooters, Chuck ^a   Ramachandran, Divya ^a  

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Author keywords

Human factors; Illiteracy; IT for developing regions; Speech recognition; Spoken dialog system; User interface

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACOUSTIC DATA; ACOUSTIC MODELS (AM); AGRICULTURAL WORKERS; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); CROSS DISCIPLINARY; DATA COLLECTIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIALECTAL VARIATION; DIALOG DESIGN; DIALOG SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC CHALLENGES; END USERS; GROUNDWORK (CO); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ITC); INTERNATIONAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; MULTI-MODAL; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM; TAMIL NADU; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; TRAINING AND EDUCATION; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; USER STUDIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 47649130343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2006.301842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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