Recently, in the field of mobile computing, significant efforts are aimed at creating speech enabled handheld devices, to provide an easier input method to users. At ITC-irst, inside WILMA (Wireless Internet and Location Management Architecture, www.wilmaproject.org) project, we developed a MBS (Multi-modal Browsing System), based on a client server architecture using a wireless infrastructure (IEEE802.11b standard). The client is running on a GNU/Linux Compaq iPAQ H3870 PDA (Personal Digital Assistant); this device can access the remote SPINET (Speech Into Equivalent Text) speech recognizer, developed in ITC-irst[4.1.1]. An Intimate Linux distribution\cite [11], modified for this application, was installed on the PDA [1]. After a brief overview of the IEEE802.11b standard, we will describe the MBS architecture in details, and we will discuss some possible future improvements of the system
Multi-modal interaction on Linux handheld devices
Brunetti, Paolo;Minati, Donato;Nardelli, Luca
2004-01-01
Abstract
Recently, in the field of mobile computing, significant efforts are aimed at creating speech enabled handheld devices, to provide an easier input method to users. At ITC-irst, inside WILMA (Wireless Internet and Location Management Architecture, www.wilmaproject.org) project, we developed a MBS (Multi-modal Browsing System), based on a client server architecture using a wireless infrastructure (IEEE802.11b standard). The client is running on a GNU/Linux Compaq iPAQ H3870 PDA (Personal Digital Assistant); this device can access the remote SPINET (Speech Into Equivalent Text) speech recognizer, developed in ITC-irst[4.1.1]. An Intimate Linux distribution\cite [11], modified for this application, was installed on the PDA [1]. After a brief overview of the IEEE802.11b standard, we will describe the MBS architecture in details, and we will discuss some possible future improvements of the systemI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
