| Title: | Cell-Phone-Based Multilingual Audio Guide System for the San Diego Zoo - Incoming Call-Handler and Speech Recognition Component |
| Speaker: | Hariprasad Namagundlu Dhalinarasimha |
| Date: | Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Location: | GMCS 307 |
| Thesis advisor: | William Root |
Abstract: | |
Informational displays and other signage at the San Diego Zoo are designed for English-speaking visitors, even though literally thousands of non-English-speaking tourists visit the Zoo each year. Furthermore, the Zoo understandably desires that its signage be unobtrusive and that it not detract from the natural ambience for which the Zoo is rightly famous. This unavoidably restricts the size of displays and consequently the amount of information that they can convey in English, much less in the dozens of other native languages of Zoo visitors. This thesis project sought to mitigate both of the above problems by designing and implementing a VoIP/DID system that allows Zoo visitors to use their own personal cell phones to access, and to hear spoken over their cell phones in their own native languages, audio presentations providing more extensive information about the animal(s) the visitor is currently viewing.
