NewsComm: a hand-held interface for interactive access to structured audio
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SpeechSkimmer: a system for interactively skimming recorded speech
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on speech as data
HSTP: hyperspeech transfer protocol
Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
WWTW: the world wide telecom web
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Social navigation for the spoken web
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Recommender systems
Content-based audio classification and retrieval by support vector machines
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Spoken Web: creation, navigation and searching of VoiceSites
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
TapBack: towards richer mobile interfaces in impoverished contexts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing a voice-based employment exchange for rural India
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Query by babbling: a research agenda
Proceedings of the first workshop on Information and knowledge management for developing region
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
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It is a common practice for us to skim textual content on a web page. While skimming, we usually skip words or phrases that are not of interest to us and we slow down our speed when the content seems to be of relevance to us. But when we listen to audio content, which is not persistent and is sequential, such skimming is not possible. In developing countries, cell-phone penetration is much higher than Internet penetration. Moreover, due to low literacy, voice is a convenient modality to access information. The skimming techniques are therefore more critical in the audio domain. In this paper, we describe the technique for navigating audio content while interacting with information systems in a client server environment, where a dumb phone is the client device. The paper presents techniques for skimming audio content and for placing markers in audio. The user studies conducted with 18 users for more than 1 month, in a live setting substantiates the usability and usefulness of the navigation techniques.