Social businesses, despite having a huge potential to generate substantial and sustainable
value, are often structurally and financially fragile. Technological interventions, such as …

In this paper, we describe several approaches to language-independent spoken term
detection and compare their performance on a common task, namely “Spoken Web Search” …

Spoken Web is a web of VoiceSites that can be accessed by a phone. The content in a
VoiceSite is audio. Therefore Spoken Web provides an alternate to the World Wide Web …

In develo** regions, literacy levels and Internet penetration is considerably low, but phone
penetration is high and is growing rapidly. In such a setting, the World Wide Telecom Web …

Research using voice-based services as a technology platform for providing information
access and services within develo** world regions has shown much promise. The results …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a “Mobile User Experience Framework for Voice
services.” The rapid spread of mobile cellular technology within Africa has made it a prime …

Hyperlocal information systems cater to the needs of the people in a well-defined
geographical area. Such information systems are ubiquitously accessible to the users in the …

This paper presents two-stream processing of audio to index the audio content for Spoken
Web search. The first stream indexes the meta-data associated with a particular audio …

All generations of mobile and networking solutions have been driven by technology
innovations, stringent performance requirements and demanding user expectations. For …

Voice has long been an important modality for digital inclusion–particularly through
customised Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. In recent years, smartphone …