A voice service for user feedback on school meals

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Grover, Aditi Sharma ^a   Calteaux, Karen ^a   Barnard, Etienne ^b   Van Huyssteen, Gerhard ^b  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

children; developing world; DTMF; ICTD; speech interface; voice user interface

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; DEVELOPING WORLD; DTMF; ICTD; SPEECH INTERFACE; VOICE USER INTERFACE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84859911651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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