The Pediaphon - Speech Interface to the free Wikipedia Encyclopedia for Mobile Phones, PDA's and MP3-Players

This paper presents an approach to generate audio based learning material dynamically from Wikipedia articles for m-Learning and ubiquitous access. It introduces the so called ’Pediaphon’, an speech interface to the free Wikipedia online encyclopedia as an example application for ’microlearning’. The effective generation and the deployment of the audio data to the user via podcast or progressive download (pseudo streaming) are covered. A convenient cell phone interface to the Wikipedia content, which is usable with every mobile phone will be introduced.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Andreas Bischoff
• Keywords: Cell Phone Interface, Database, DEXAW 2007, Wikipedia Articles, Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia