Ellection markup language (EML) based tele-voting system

• Main Author: Gong, XiangQi
• Other Authors: Radovanovic, Aleksandar
• Language: en
• Published: University of the Western Cape 2013
• Subjects: Election Markup Language (EML) Telephone Voting System; Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR); Text to Speech (TTS); Voting by voice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1707

Magister Scientiae - MSc === Elections are one of the most fundamental activities of a democratic society. As is the case in any other aspect of life, developments in technology have resulted changes in the voting procedure from using the traditional paper-based voting to voting by use of electronic means, or e-voting. E-voting involves using different forms of electronic means like; voting machines, voting via the Internet, telephone, SMS and digital interactive television. This thesis concerns voting by telephone, or televoting, it starts by giving a brief overview and evaluation of various models and technologies that are implemented within such systems. The aspects of televoting that have been investigated are technologies that provide a voice interface to the voter and conduct the voting process, namely the Election Markup Language (EML), Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS). === South Africa