Avaaj Otalo: a field study of an interactive voice forum for small farmers in rural India
By Neil Patel, Deepti Chittamuru, Anupam Jain, Paresh Dave, Tapan S. Parikh. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010
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Subfields: Business and International Management, Education, Information Systems
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- The Little We Know: An Exploratory Literature Review on the Utility of Mobile Phone‐Enabled Services for Smallholder Farmers (2018, background): “Patel et al. (2010) assess the performance of the social media aspect of Avaaj Otalo in India, which offers farmers a platform to ask questions via recorded audio messages, which are then answered by service provider staff or other farmers.”
- Open data kit: tools to build information services for developing regions (2010, background): “Voice is a good modality for the illiterate, and speechbased systems have shown promise for delivering information [47], for creating communities of practice [44], and providing health surveillance [32].”
- Developments of Swahili resources for an automatic speech recognition system (2012, background): “Applications and usability of such tools in developing countries are proved to be numerous and are highlighted for information access in Sub-Saharan Africa [1, 2], agricultural information in rural India [3], or health information access by community health workers in Pakistan [4].”