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Military and Government Applications of Human-Machine Communication by Voice
Pages 357-370

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... speech- and language-based technology for naval combat team tactical training; (4) speech technology for command and control on a carrier flight deck; (5)
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... The paper draws on many visits and contacts by the author with personnel at a variety of current and potential user organizations in the United States. The paper focuses on opportunities and on what is needed to develop real applications, because, despite the many opportunities that were identified and the high user interest, the military and government organizations contacted were generally not using human-machine communication by voice in operational systems (exceptions included an application in air traffic controller training and voice entry of zip codes by the U.S.
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From page 359...
... Updated overviews of the state of the art in speech recognition technology are presented elsewhere in this volume. With respect to technological needs, military applications often place higher demand on robustness to acoustic noise and user stress than do civilian applications (Weinstein, 1991~.
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... 1992~. In Desert Storm the allied troops moved farther and faster, than troops in any other war in history, and extraordinary efforts were needed to make command and control resources keep pace with the troops.
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... soldier achng as a forward observer could use speech recognition to enter a stylized report that Would be transmuted to command and control headquarters over a very lo~-rate/ jam-resistant channel Repair and maintenance in the geld can be facilitated by voice access to repair information and helmet-mounted displays to show the informabon. In a mobile command and control vehicle, commanders need convenient access to battlefield information and convenient means for entering and updating plans.
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... Feasibility has been demonstrated, but operational use has not been established. The Army AVRADA people I met described a tragic helicopter collision in which the fact that both pilots were tuning radios may have been the major cause of the crash.
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... The goal in the carrier flight deck control application is to provide speech recognition for updates to aircraft launch, recovery weapon status, and maintenance information. At the request of Vice-Admiral ferry O
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... The training scenario includes a mix of real forces and force elements simulated by using advanced simulation technology. Personnel in the Combat Information Center (either at sea or in a land-based test environment)
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... In particular, entry of data and log information by voice could potentially provide significant workload reduction in a large variety of command and control center operations. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL APPLICATIONS The air traffic controller is taught to use constrained phraseology to communicate with pilots.
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... Advances in speech and language technology will extend the range and effectiveness of these training applications (Weinstein, 1991~. As in the Naval Combat Team Tactical training application, speech recognition technology and data fusion could be used to automate training session analysis and to provide rapid feedback to trainees.
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... The current speech recognition technology is capable of performing these functions usefully in a number of military environments, including particularly to provide operator workload reduction in command and control centers. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER A key conclusion of this study is that there is now a great opportunity for military and government applications of human-machine
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... With today's software-based recognition technology, and with the increased computing power in PCs, workstations, and digital signalprocessing chips, it is now possible to develop and test applications with recognition algorithms that run in real time, in software, on commercially available general-purpose processors and that perform very close to the state of the art. Technologists must work with users
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... In Proceeding of the February 1992 DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp.
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From page 370...
... 1983. Selected Military Applications of Automatic Speech Recognition.
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  • tactical training
  • government applications
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  • report entry
  • automatic speech
  • research advances
  • natural language
  • flight deck

  • carrier flight
  • law enforcement
  • potential applications
  • lecture series
  • naval combat

  • control displays
  • applications include
  • rapid access
  • deck control
  • robust speech

  • force elements
  • require major
  • agard lecture
  • traffic controller
  • rapid feedback


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