Author:Ndwe, TJ; Barnard, E; Foko, Thato EDate:May 2013Access to information and communication is one of the most important needs in any population group. It is generally challenging for people in the developing world to access information because the tools and the technologies used to access ...Read more
Author:Molapo, R; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2014The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies. We give a brief statistical analysis of the data that have been ...Read more
Author:Ndwe, TJ; Dlodlo, NDate:Dec 2013This paper addresses the significance of affordance in association with cultural conventions in the design of voice user interfaces (VUI) for orally grounded users in the global South (i.e., developing countries of the world). The paper ...Read more
Author:Sharma Grover, AS; Calteaux, Karen V; Barnard, E; Van Huyssteen, GDate:Mar 2012Research using voice-based services as a technology platform for providing information access and services within developing world regions has shown much promise. The results for design and deployment of such voice-based services have varied ...Read more