Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3183482, abstract = {In 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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Plauch\'e, Madelaine and Prabaker, Madhu}, booktitle = {CHI '06: CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {3183482}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1125451.1125746}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125746}, doi = {10.1145/1125451.1125746}, isbn = {1-59593-298-4}, keywords = {india, speech-recognition}, location = {Montr\'eal, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada}, pages = {1619--1624}, posted-at = {2008-09-25 20:44:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125746}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3183482 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3183482 N2 - In 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. CY - Montr\'eal, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada SN - 1-59593-298-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1624 TI - Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India PB - ACM T2 - CHI '06: CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1619 KW - india KW - speech-recognition AU - Plauch\'e, Madelaine AU - Prabaker, Madhu PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125746 ER -