The utility of spoken dialog systems

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-16

  Barnard, Etienne ^a   Plauche, Madelaine ^a   Davel, Marelie ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Developing nations; Speech recognition; Spoken dialogue systems; User interface human factors; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING NATIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; LOCAL LANGUAGE; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACE HUMAN FACTORS;

FIELD PLOTTING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649565481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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