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Contributor [1]
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - 03:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
226 [3]
Article-Summary: 

This article looks at the possibility of taking advantage of SMS access in Africa to send requests for articles that would then be phoned back as a spoken version. "The user sends an SMS with the article title to a phone number. A few seconds later, they get a call on their cell phone with a spoken version of the article they requested."

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/29882 [5]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/29957

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