Speech vs. touch-tone: Telephony interfaces for information access by low literate users

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 447-457

  Sherwani, Jahanzeb ^a   Palijo, Sooraj ^b   Mirza, Sarwat ^b   Ahmed, Tanveer ^b   Ali, Nosheen ^c   Rosenfeld, Roni ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Health and Nutrition Development Society   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Illiteracy; Information access; Low literate; Speech technology; Spoken language interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH; CRITICAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION ACCESS; LIFE AND DEATH; PAKISTAN; SPEECH INTERFACE; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; SPOKEN-LANGUAGE INTERFACE; TELEPHONY INTERFACES;

HEALTH; LINGUISTICS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70450146898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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