SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data

Summary: SpeakQL enables speech-driven querying of structured data via a modular design and a practical SQL subset, with touch/speech corrections. It introduces spoken-SQL dataset and a schema-agnostic generator; 2.7x speedup over tablet typing and 10x–60x lower effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h943f919754f28f80
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.9675576e-05
Overall Rank: 5,862 | 60.59%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389777

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Vraj Shah (University of California San Diego)
2. Side Li (University of California San Diego)
3. Arun Kumar (University of California San Diego)
4. Lawrence Saul (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shah_sigmod20,
        title = {{SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data}},
        author = {Shah, Vraj and Li, Side and Kumar, Arun and Saul, Lawrence},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389777},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389777},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,657	Demonstrating the Voice-Based Exploration of Large Data Sets with CiceroDB-Zero	2020	VLDB	5.4772833e-05
11,965	Demonstrating Robust Voice Querying with MUVE: Optimally Visualizing Results of Phonetically Similar Queries	2021	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,008	Robust Voice Querying with MUVE: Optimally Visualizing Results of Phonetically Similar Queries	2021	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
180	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.0002654471
439	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00018251249
1,877	Making the Case for Query-by-Voice with EchoQuery	2016	SIGMOD	9.4533419e-05
2,096	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.0550231e-05
2,605	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.229938e-05
2,700	On Improving User Response Times in Tableau	2015	SIGMOD	8.1188166e-05
2,777	DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases	2018	SIGMOD	8.0302257e-05
3,003	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.7645915e-05
4,694	Demonstration of SpeakQL: Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2019	SIGMOD	6.4654925e-05
5,168	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	6.2460238e-05
5,576	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying	2019	SIGMOD	6.0789878e-05

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