ABSTRACT Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its
large number of applications and the proliferation of interfaces or computing devices that …

Agricultural extension in the Global South can benefit greatly from the use of modern
information and communication technologies (ICT). Yet, despite two decades of promising …

Designing ICT systems for rural users in the developing world is difficult for a variety of
reasons ranging from problems with infrastructure to wide differences in user contexts and …

One of the greatest challenges in providing information and communication technology
access is that about 775 million people in the world are completely non-literate and many …

Despite continuous efforts to build and update mobile network infrastructure, mobile devices
in developing regions continue to be constrained by limited bandwidth. Unfortunately, this …

There is a growing interest in building language technologies (LTs) for low resource
languages (LRLs). However, there are flaws in the planning, data collection and …

At the beginning of an ICT4D project where mobile phones will be used, the question that
researchers and practitioners ponder is: what mobile device will be best for the project? In …

In this work, we present a new large-vocabulary, broadcast news ASR system for Hindi.
Since Hindi has a largely phonemic orthography, the pronunciation model was automatically …

This paper contributes to the understanding of graphical user interfaces for illiterate users. It
looks at text-free user interface elements for software applications from a semiotic …

Among different type of illiterate people, the print illiterates suffer most from getting crucial
information passed around the society. Many print illiterate people are found in the …