Design and implementation of a VoiceXML-driven wiki application for assistive environments on the web

Authors:
Constantinos Kolias;Vassilis Kolias;Ioannis Anagnostopoulos;Georgios Kambourakis;Eleftherios Kayafas
Affiliations:
University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 832 00;National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece 157 73;University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 832 00;University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 832 00;National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece 157 73
Venue:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an audio wiki application accessible via both the Public Switched Telephone Network and the Internet. The application exploits mature World Wide Web Consortium standards, such as VoiceXML, Speech Synthesis Markup Language, and Speech Recognition Grammar Specification toward achieving our goals. 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 (PC). Users may access wiki content via fixed or mobile phones, or via a PC using a Web Browser or a Voice over IP service. This feature promotes pervasiveness to collaboratively created content to an extremely large population, i.e., those who simply own a telephone line.