Voices in the field: A mobile phone based application to improve marginal farmers livelihoods
Hendrik Knoche, Priya Rao, Jun Huang · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 2010
Speech is one of the promising candidates to convey information to illiterate users through non-text user interfaces.This paper describes the challenges that marginal farmers in India face in terms of ICT accessibility on mobile phones in an ICT4D project.The central question is how to submit and convey information through low end mobile phones in ways that illiterate or semiliterate farmers will find trustworthy and help them adapt their farming practices.