HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-107

  Grover, Aditi Sharma ^a   Plauche, Madelaine ^b   Barnard, Etienne ^a   Kuun, Christiaan ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Africa; Developing regions; DTMF; Health information; HIV; ICT; Illiterate users; Information access; Low literate users; Semi literate users; Speech interfaces; Spoken dialogue systems; Touchtone

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; ILLITERATE USERS; INFORMATION ACCESS; SPEECH INTERFACE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SPEECH PROCESSING; VIRUSES;

HEALTH;

EID: 77951565445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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