OM Analysis for Mongolia (MUST) Country Component

1. Vision

Information technology is one of the most rapidly changing and dynamic aspects of the business world. There are several emerging technologies that promise to radically change working with information in traditional ways. Those emerging technologies allow us to work with information that appeals to the senses. One of this group of emerging technologies is automatic speech recognition (ASR). The ASR is technologies that can capture what you say and distinguish between words and sentences. Possibilities of using ASR are limitless-anything you can communicate by typing, pointing, or speaking, can probably benefit from an ASR system. It will simplify our personal life. ASR can be used home appliances that contain an embedded IT system that controls numerous functions and are capable of making some decisions. We can also get the information quickly and efficiently.
ASR is now on just beginning stage for Mongolia. By implementing these technologies into Mongolian, individuals interact with the computer and other devices in their native languages.

2. Mission

The project will develop Mongolian speech recognition system that can be used and deployed the localized computing technology in the citizens daily activities.
It will contribute to the development of active networks of researchers and advocates and encourage partnerships between research organizations and interested organizations.
It will constitute the possibility to use corpus of Mongolian speech in further research and put system to recognize Mongolian into computer and other devices such as home appliances. Consequently, individuals are able to interact with devices in their native language. It will allow you to read a lengthy text inputting the computer, into microphone, rather than type.
One part of computer-based translating system will be done. It will tend to eliminate digital dividing of the citizens knowledge.

3. Boundary Partners

1. Local government body (Mongolian University of Science and Technology, MUST)
2. Institute of Multimedia Communication Technology (School of Telecommunication and Information Technology or Department of Information Technology)
3. Computer Linguistics/Researchers
4. Development agents (Developers of computer-based translating system, telephone service providers system offering voice dialing, voice-controlled intelligent home appliances system, and travel-agency system)
5. End users of Mongolian speech recognition software

3.1 Local government body (Mongolian University of Science and Technology, MUST)

3.1.1 Outcome Challenge

The program intends to see local government that recognize the importance of, and engage in different speech recognition activities to encourage citizens participating for accessing and use of localized computing technology, gathering the contribution and establishing the partnership with other organizations within their area. They are motivating other communities, organizations, and institutions to learn and use Mongolian speech recognition software in their daily activities and research. Also, it should be responsible for identifying the beneficiaries or the end users to give them basic training in localized software and getting feedback from people and utilize it to make the program more successful.

3.1.2 Progress Makers

Expect to See

• Participating in regular boundary partners meetings
• Building network to increase the participation of citizens and organizations in project area
• Establishing a structure for cooperation in the partnership that ensures the interest of local community and organizations
• Contributing the minimum human and financial resources necessary to get the PAN Phase – II program operational
• Seek opportunities to disseminate the benefits of the project in community people

Like to See

• Involving in the process of building ICT infrastructure in the area
• Identifying the opportunities for collaboration with other organizations for encouraging citizens in the PAN Phase-II speech recognition program
• Identifying opportunities for, and successfully obtaining, funding from district government and other range of sources in the project area

Love to See

• Playing a leadership role in increasing financial investment in the ICT development component
• Influencing district level government for formulating policy on prioritizing ICT as important component and managing the fund for expanding similar projects in other areas

3.2 Institute of Multimedia Communication Technology（IMCT）

3.2.1 Outcome Challenge

The program intends to see IMCT to implement the programming activities in the speech recognition.
• Development of Mongolian speech recognition system
• Creation of corpus of Mongolian speech
• Creation of corpus of Mongolian speech research
• Constitutes possibility to enter just reading using the microphone, lengthy text into computer
• Support to interact with devices in their native languages
• Can be used for computer-based translating system to recognizes speech
• Can be used for telephone service providers to offer voice dialing to their customers. By simply saying “dad” or “pizza” your telephone will automatically dial the number from a list of predefined numbers
• Can be used for intelligent home appliance. Appliances in your home that contain an embedded IT system that controls numerous functions and are capable of making some decisions. Its example is voice-controlled refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers. With a voice-controlled oven, all you have to say is just name of meal, and oven automatically set the temperature and notify you when dinner is ready
• Can be used for travel-agency system to make reservation
• Increase the capability of studying for citizens suffering from growth laboured
• Publish papers in international conferences and journals

3.2.2 Progress Makers

Expect to See

• Participating and facilitating in regular boundary partnership meetings for disseminating original concepts on speech recognition in PAN Phase –II program and gathering the contribution from the respective partners
• Establishing a structure for cooperation and collaboration with boundary partners
• Acquiring new skills for involvement in the speech recognition

Like to See

• Supporting the program implementation
• Promoting the speech recognition concept and their experiences with other boundary partners
• Expanding the partnership to include all the main speech recognition users.
• Producing and disseminating concrete examples of benefits arising from speech recognition activities
• Identifying opportunities for collaboration with other institutions and organizations
• Developing concepts and building a network to sustainable run this process in future

Love to See

• Playing lead role in program and resource management with view to long-and medium-term benefits
• Sharing lessons and experiences with other institutions nationally and internationally to encourage deploying ICT technology
• Influencing national policy debates and formulation on resource use and management

3.3 Computer Linguistics/ Researchers(CL)

3.3.1 Outcome Challenge

The program intends to see the Department of Linguistics develops capacity for computational linguistics through the development of linguistic resources for Mongolian. They are able to support and help the program with their linguistic capabilities and capacity.
• Help produce corpus of Mongolian speech and speech research
• Exchange the experiences and expand cooperative working with the similar research institutions of other countries
• Collaborate in some field, and
• Publish papers in international conferences and journals
As a result, the research of Mongolian computer linguistics has reached in certain level and authority of universities and research institutions doing research in this field increases at the international platform.

3.3.2 Progress Makers

Expect to See

• Participating in regular boundary partnership meetings
• Involving in creation of basic language resources needed for Mongolian speech recognition
• Holding seminars on Mongolian linguistics

Like to See

• Documenting the various Mongolian linguistic phenonema

Love to See

• Offering courses on Computation Linguistics
• Enhancing the knowledge for higher studies in Computational Linguistics
• Responsible for developing and maintaining Mongolian language resources

3.4 Development agents (Developers of computer-based translating system, telephone service providers system offering voice dialing, voice-controlled intelligent home appliances system, and travel-agency system)

3.4.1 Outcome Challenge

The program wants to see the development agent community recognizing the importance of, and engage in further development and enhancement of the localized software developed by the project. The development community will also build new applications based on the technologies developed under this project, and support the software for the end users. They are also able to motivate other community, institutions and organizations to learn and use the speech recognition software developed by this project.

3.4.2 Progress Makers

Expect to See

• Downloading and building software systems mentioned above using source
• Providing feedback for improvement of the speech recognition

Like to See

• Understanding the basics of developing Mongolian NLP applications
• Fixing problems reported by end users
• Providing basic support to the end users

Love to See

• Contributing enhancements to the software
• Developing their own applications using Mongolian speech recognition technology

3.5 End users of Mongolian speech recognition software

3.5.1 Outcome Challenge

The program intends to see the end users that recognize the importance of, and use the localized computing technology of speech recognition produced by the project in their daily activities such as communications, online business, sharing information and knowledge with partnerships.
They are able to motivate other communities, organizations, and institutions to learn and use Mongolian speech recognition software. The end users are also capable in asking for new features and reporting problems with the software produced by the project to make it more successful. The users should be able to contribute towards future development of the software by writing documentation to share, as well as contributing language resources such as lexical entries.

3.5.2 Progress Makers

Expect to See

• Downloading and installing the speech recognition software being developed

Like to See

• Reporting problems in the software
• Asking for enhancements in the software

Love to See

• Contributing documentation to enhance the software
• Contributing lexical resources, such as entries for lexicon
• Incorporating the use of Mongolian speech recognition software tools in their daily computing

4. Strategy Map

	Causal	Persuasive
Individual	Speech Recognition Software	Offer to attend seminars and workshops, offer training and training material
Environmental	provide computers and microphone	develop internet sites, publish papers or CDs, broadcast on TV, organize confrences, trainings, seminars

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