Add to ORKGIn this paper, we describe the design process, results, and observations from a pilot user study for Tamil Market, a speech-driven agricultural query system, conducted in community centers in rural India. The primary users were rural villagers of varying degrees of literacy from three districts of Tamil Nadu. Preliminary findings from a Wizard-of-Oz field study show that rural villagers are able to navigate through a dialog system using their voice, regardless of literacy level and previous experience with technology. Traditional user study techniques, however, favor literate users and are ill-suited to research in developing regions
Technology has made considerable advancements.in certain parts of the world, there is a disconnect b...
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that's more re...
The Information Village Research Project is an experiment in electronic knowledge delivery. Ten vill...
In a developing country like India, agriculture provides large scale employment in rural areas, thus...
Part 1: Mobile LearningInternational audienceVoice-based services offer major business opportunities...
In this paper, the improvements in the recently developed end to end spoken query system to access t...
The first problem is: we don’t exactly know the information needs and information seeking behavior o...
The need for quick and broad application of Speech enabled systems is becoming obvious. Studies have...
A majority of the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. Therefore, there is a nee...
The study describes the assessment of mobile phone based agricultural voice messages disseminated to...
In agricultural sector, farmers in rural areas faced major problems because of illiteracy. They\ud c...
Technology has made considerable advancements over the last few decades. With over 70 million native...
A network of voice recordings, accessible from any telephone, provides information to farmers in Ind...
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that's more re...
Tamil talk is a speech to text application and was designed from a perspective of language and philo...
Technology has made considerable advancements.in certain parts of the world, there is a disconnect b...
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that's more re...
The Information Village Research Project is an experiment in electronic knowledge delivery. Ten vill...
In a developing country like India, agriculture provides large scale employment in rural areas, thus...
Part 1: Mobile LearningInternational audienceVoice-based services offer major business opportunities...
In this paper, the improvements in the recently developed end to end spoken query system to access t...
The first problem is: we don’t exactly know the information needs and information seeking behavior o...
The need for quick and broad application of Speech enabled systems is becoming obvious. Studies have...
A majority of the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. Therefore, there is a nee...
The study describes the assessment of mobile phone based agricultural voice messages disseminated to...
In agricultural sector, farmers in rural areas faced major problems because of illiteracy. They\ud c...
Technology has made considerable advancements over the last few decades. With over 70 million native...
A network of voice recordings, accessible from any telephone, provides information to farmers in Ind...
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that's more re...
Tamil talk is a speech to text application and was designed from a perspective of language and philo...
Technology has made considerable advancements.in certain parts of the world, there is a disconnect b...
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that's more re...
The Information Village Research Project is an experiment in electronic knowledge delivery. Ten vill...