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    SPEECH RECOGNITION AS AN INPUT DEVICE FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN INFORMATION ACCESS: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH
    (Library Department,University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2022-04) Goshie, Rhoda Wusa; Muthee, Daniel; Mutwiri
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the speech recognition as an input device for effective communication in information access. Speech Recognition has been one of the most exciting research areas in this computerized world. In order to establish communication between the humans and the machine, the technology ‘Speech Recognition’ is essential with the help of technology users can easily control devices and create documents by speaking. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper adopted conceptual approach. It determines the concept of speech recognition, voice input device, usage of speech recognition, usages in education and daily life, people with disabilities, evaluation of speech recognition for effective communication, related works on speech recognitions, key features of effective speech recognition for communication, advantages and benefits of speech recognitions, challenges and recommendations of speech recognitions. Implication: Libraries should find out its place and roles in the usage of speech recognition software for individuals with special needs to help enhance a close captioning of conversations such as discussions in conference rooms and classroom lectures for effective communication and easy access to information Originality/Value: The use of speech recognition software, in conjunction with a digital audio recorder and a personal computer running word-processing software has proven to be positive for restoring damaged short-term memory capacity, in stroke and craniotomy individuals for easy communication and access to information. Keywords: Speech Recognition, Speech Recognition Usage, Mobile Devices, Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Processing and Voice Recognition.
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    ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED THROUGH TRAINING FOR JOB PERFORMANCE AMONG LIBRARIANS IN SELECTED LIBRARIES IN NORTH-CENTRAL, NIGERIA
    (Library Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka., 2022-03) Goshie, Rhoda Wusa; Muthee, Daniel; Mutwiri, Caroline
    The sufficiency of the service is dependent on the Librarians who are properly prepared and constantly learning .As a result, the quality of educational options and the capacity of personnel to take advantage of such chances on a regular basis are critical concerns. Librarians and more information employee need to continue to aspire for greatness in the discipline by constantly upgrading and improving their knowledge and competency as maintained by the IFLA code of ethics. Training of the librarians is a necessity which helps in assisting to carry out services that are acceptable. It is therefore paramount to study the assessment of the Knowledge for librarians and how it affects their job performance in the 21st century librarianship. A descriptive survey design was used for this study. The population of the study was 382 librarians from seven academic libraries in North- Central, Nigeria. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data for the investigation and the sampling technique used was census also known as total enumeration. The results shows that majority of the librarians have no adequate knowledge through training received and have not applied the knowledge for librarians effectively which leads to low performance on the job because most of these libraries do not have ICT knowledge such as; content curation and digital asset management . Nevertheless, they are not competent in applying the knowledge in discharging their duties. The paper concludes that Librarians should not focus on theoretical part of the profession but should emphasize on the application of knowledge of Librarianship on their job performance. The paper recommended that there should be provision of adequate training and retraining of librarian, adequate IT infrastructure should be provided and there should be standing policies for attending the trainings for effective job performance among librarians.