Open AccessDeveloping Alumni Relationship Management using Thai Speech Recognition on Mobile Application
Author(s) -
Sumitra Nuanmeesriis*
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d9424.118419
Subject(s) - android (operating system) , graduation (instrument) , computer science , test (biology) , multimedia , medical education , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , paleontology , biology , operating system
Alumni are one of the most significant assets for the success of universities. After graduation, they enter a new society, have work and family responsibilities which change over time according to their age and economic status. It becomes more difficult to communicate between friends and university. This situation is challenging to collect up-to-date information about alumni from a university database as well as sharing it with all alumni. This article demonstrates the alumni relationship management (ARM) using speech recognition for the mobile application on smartphones. It has been designed and developed for Thai speech recognition to facilitate alumni especially the elderly who may have vision problems or typing by applied the ionic framework to support both iOS and Android. The contents were evaluated by five experts to identify each feature of the developed mobile application. Afterward, the application was evaluated by one hundred twenty alumni. The learning post-test results scored higher than the pre-test results. The effectiveness evaluation results in terms of the accessibility barriers at the high-level while being used has high consensus.