IVR junction: Building scalable and distributed voice forums in the developing world

6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vashistha, Aditya ^a   Thies, William ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; TELEPHONE SETS;

CLOUD-BASED; COMMERCIAL TOOLS; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE; LOCAL ACCESS POINTS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; PHONE CALLS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 85091860405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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