Author:Gumede, T; Plauche, MDate:Mar 2009This paper describes sociological fieldwork conducted in the autumn of 2008 in eleven rural communities of South Africa. The goal of the fieldwork was to evaluate the potential role of automated telephony services in improving access to ...Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Plauche, M; Davel, MDate:Dec 2008The commercial successes of spoken dialog systems in the developed world provide encouragement for their use in the developing world, where speech could play a role in the dissemination of relevant information in local languages. We investigate ...Read more