Archive | 2021
COVID-19 Social Distancing with Speech-Enabled Online Market Place for Farmers
Abstract
Corona virus (COVID-19) has been rampant in most countries across the world, leading to a global crisis, and it has been so dangerous because of its ability to spread through any medium especially when there is physical contact of any object. So, this puts many people including the farmers and the customers at a bigger risk when they sell or buy products physically in a market place. This is a major challenge to an Indian farmer today to sell the product at the right price at the right time. Moreover, social distancing is the need of the hour, and hence, it is an even bigger challenge to monitor the market place to avoid physical contact. Also, many initiatives by governments, local bodies, and cooperative societies to eliminate the intermediaries are not turning effective due to the non-awareness, non-accessibility, ignorance, and ease of usage difficulties. Keeping the current pandemic situation in mind and social distancing being the need of the hour, this paper proposes a speech-enabled interactive voice response (SEIVR) wherein the farmer and the customer can sell and buy products online, i.e., without any physical contact. In the current technology era, online market platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, and Olx are effectively cutting short these supply-chain overheads by establishing a direct connection between buyer and seller. Hence, the proposed implementation of a speech-enabled interactive voice response (SEIVR)-based online market place for farmers which even ensure social distancing will help to reduce the spread of the virus. The objective of this work is to build an agriculture-based mobile application with speech-enabled interactive voice response (SEIVR) based on speech recognition application with the Telugu language as a case study. © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.