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May 12, 2008, 11:49 PM
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Re: Audio wiki for mobile phones - looking for a home
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Hi Teemu,
this sounds very interesting. I hope you will find support for this project.
It would be nice if there could be a possibility to use the interface with
voice or number keys input. This could open this service for users of
non-sms phones as well, for example for buyers of the Braille phone ($20)
from Spice Ltd. This could give many poor people from developing countries
access to all the info from Mediawiki based Wikis. This is especially
interesting for persons with blindness, , dyslexia or illiteracy
limitations.
Btw, your blog with the background information seems to have a porn spam
problem.
Best, Per
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teemu Leinonen" <teemu.leinonen[at]taik.fi>
To: <wikitech-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:46 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Audio wiki for mobile phones - looking for a home
> Hi all,
>
> For some time, with some friends we have been playing with a
> prototype that makes it possible to search content from Mediawiki by
> sending text messages (SMS) from your phone. You send your search
> term to to the server and after receiving the text message the server
> (Asterisk) makes a call back to you and plays the audio content (if
> there is audio) or text to speech will read you the text content
> found fro the corresponding article. During the call you can navigate
> in the article with the DTMF/touchtone key presses. For instance you
> can jump to next section and record audio to any of the sections.
>
> Right now we do not have the energy needed to develop the prototype
> further. For this reason we would be happy to give it as a project
> for some developer interested in to take a leadership of it.
>
> The development site is in here:
>
> http://dev.mobiled.org/trac/
>
> A blog and background information about the project is here:
>
> http://www.mobiled.org
>
> Please, let me know if you (or you know someone who) could be
> interested in to work with this.
>
> We are happy to keep on hosting the development site (http://
> dev.mobiled.org/trac/), the SVN and give all support one may need to
> get on working with this.
>
> The prototype is in a stage that one can set it up, but the whole
> thing is not packaged in a way that other people could take it in use
> in any easy way. There are also some specific hardware requirements
> and you also needs a phone line to make it work.
>
> So, for what one can use the audio mobile wiki?
>
> We have tested it with Wikipedia content and in a way it works. You
> can very check pretty fast some basic facts with it when not close to
> web. For instance, if you just want to know some basic things about
> some country the Wikipedia format works for this purpose pretty well
> also when used with this.
>
> We also have made some school pilots where students were providing
> content to the wiki in form of "podcasts" they recorded with the
> phone. It was fun and also worked out pretty well.
>
> RIght now we are writing a paper claiming that most likely the mobile
> audio could work nicely as some kind of craigslist in places where
> there aren't internet connections but mobile phones. One could have
> in a wiki server local news, classified, jobs, housing, for sale etc.
> - all content mainly provided by the people with their phone and by
> recording their ads to the server under the right search term.
>
> Why we think that this is important?
>
> Most people in the world do not have an internet connection. Most
> people have mobile phones - those simple ones with text message and
> voice.
>
> Why we are no more interested in to develop this?
>
> We are, but we simply do not have the right skills set: very limited
> knowhow of Mediawiki and Asterisk. From our side the MobilED research
> - we are a research group - is pretty much done. What we did was
> contextual inquiry, participatory design, prototype development and
> piloting of the idea with real people. We also have reported this
> work in various forums. However, event with this announcement of
> looking for a main software developer for the open source project we
> are not going to leave the MobilED totally behind. We still want to
> be involved in it and do more our kind of research when there is a
> need for it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Teemu
>
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