Prototype of Voice Commanded University Executive Business Intelligence Assistant (BELA)

Abstract

Higher education institutions have already started implementing business intelligence application in order to support university executives to make better decisions. Normally, an application is operated using a mouse, keyboard, or touch-screen device which in some cases is not suitable for the users. The recent researches and developments in natural language processing open up opportunities for implementation in in the field of information systems. This paper presents a prototype of a voice commanded executive business intelligence assistant which gives the users the comfort to request for information to be displayed on the screen using their voice.