Lessons learned in transcribing 5000 h of air traffic control communications for robust automatic speech understanding

J Zuluaga-Gomez, I Nigmatulina, A Prasad, P Motlicek… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring
safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). The handling of these voice communications …

How does pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 perform on domain-shifted asr? an extensive benchmark on air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, A Prasad… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled
speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine …

Atco2 corpus: A large-scale dataset for research on automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding of air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, K Veselý, I Szöke, A Blatt… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Personal assistants, automatic speech recognizers and dialogue understanding systems are
becoming more critical in our interconnected digital world. A clear example is air traffic …

A virtual simulation-pilot agent for training of air traffic controllers

J Zuluaga-Gomez, A Prasad, I Nigmatulina, P Motlicek… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic
controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) …

A two-step approach to leverage contextual data: speech recognition in air-traffic communications

I Nigmatulina, J Zuluaga-Gomez… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between
pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and …

Bertraffic: Bert-based joint speaker role and speaker change detection for air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, SS Sarfjoo, A Prasad… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows transcribing the communications between air
traffic controllers (ATCOs) and aircraft pilots. The transcriptions are used later to extract ATC …

Safety Aspects of Supporting Apron Controllers with Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Integrated into an Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and …

M Kleinert, O Ohneiser, H Helmke, S Shetty, H Ehr… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
The information air traffic controllers (ATCos) communicate via radio telephony is valuable
for digital assistants to provide additional safety. Yet, ATCos have to enter this information …

Improving callsign recognition with air-surveillance data in air-traffic communication

I Nigmatulina, R Braun, J Zuluaga-Gomez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can be used as the assistance of speech
communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers. Its application can significantly …

A context-aware language model to improve the speech recognition in air traffic control

D Guo, Z Zhang, P Fan, J Zhang, B Yang - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recognizing isolated digits of the flight callsign is an important and challenging task for
automatic speech recognition (ASR) in air traffic control (ATC). Fortunately, the flight callsign …

Lessons Learned in ATCO2: 5000 hours of Air Traffic Control Communications for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding

J Zuluaga-Gomez, I Nigmatulina, A Prasad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring
safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). This task requires high levels of awareness from …