The Pediaphon - speech interface to the free Wikipedia encyclopedia for mobile phones, PDA’s and MP3-players

This paper presents an approach to generate audio based learning material dynamically from Wikipedia arti-cles for m-Learning and ubiquitous access. It introduces the so called ’Pediaphon’, an speech interface to the free Wikipedia online encyclopedia as an example application for ’microlearning’. The effective generation and the de-ployment of the audio data to the user via podcast or pro-gressive download (pseudo streaming) are covered. A con-venient cell phone interface to the Wikipedia content, which is usable with every mobile phone will be introduced. 1