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

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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.

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Abbreviations

ABNF:

Augmented Backus–Naur Form

ASR:

Automatic Speech Recognition

CGI:

Common Gateway Interface

DTB:

Digital Talking Book

DTMF:

Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency

GrXML:

Grammar XML

HTML:

Hypertext Markup Language

IT:

Information Technology

JSGF:

Java Speech Grammar Format

JSML:

Java Speech API Markup Language

PC:

Personal Computer

PSTN:

Public Switched Telephone Network

SIP:

Session Initiation Protocol

SMS:

Short Message Service

SRGS:

Speech Recognition Grammar Specification

SSML:

Speech Synthesis Markup Language

TTS:

Text to Speech

URI:

Uniform Resource Identifier

VoiceXML:

Voice eXtensible Markup Language

VoIP:

Voice over IP

WML:

Wireless Markup Language

W3C:

World Wide Web Consortium

XHTML:

Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language

XML:

eXtensible Markup Language

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  1. University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, 832 00, Samos, Greece

    Constantinos Kolias, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos & Georgios Kambourakis

  2. National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 157 73, Zografou, Greece

    Vassilis Kolias & Eleftherios Kayafas

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Kolias, C., Kolias, V., Anagnostopoulos, I. et al. Design and implementation of a VoiceXML-driven wiki application for assistive environments on the web. Pers Ubiquit Comput 14, 527–539 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-009-0274-z

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