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A pervasive wiki application based on VoiceXML

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Constantinos Kolias,

Vassilis Kolias,

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos,

Georgios Kambourakis,

Eleftherios KayafasAuthors Info & Claims

PETRA '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

Article No.: 58, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1389586.1389656

Published: 16 July 2008 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an audio wiki application accessible via the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet for educational purposes. The application exploits mature World Wide Web Consortium standards such as VoiceXML, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS). The purpose of such an application is to assist visually impaired, technologically uneducated, and underprivileged people in accessing information originally intended to be accessed visually via a Personal Computer. Users may access wiki content via wired or mobile phones, or via a Personal Computer using a Web Browser or a Voice over IP service. This feature promotes pervasiveness to educational material to an extremely large population, i.e. those who simply own a telephone line.

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Popescu E(2010)Adaptation provisioning with respect to learning styles in a Web‐based educational system: an experimental studyJournal of Computer Assisted Learning10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00364.x26:4(243-257)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2010
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00364.x
Rudinsky JMikula TKencl LDolezal JGarcia X(2009)Voice2WebProceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_10(118-131)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_10

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A pervasive wiki application based on VoiceXML
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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University of Central Greece (Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics), Greece

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Popescu E(2010)Adaptation provisioning with respect to learning styles in a Web‐based educational system: an experimental studyJournal of Computer Assisted Learning10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00364.x26:4(243-257)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2010
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00364.x
Rudinsky JMikula TKencl LDolezal JGarcia X(2009)Voice2WebProceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_10(118-131)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_10

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