[HTML][HTML] Spoken instruction understanding in air traffic control: Challenge, technique, and application

Y Lin - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
In air traffic control (ATC), speech communication with radio transmission is the primary way
to exchange information between the controller and aircrew. A wealth of contextual …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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) …

Automatic speech recognition and understanding for radar label maintenance support increases safety and reduces air traffic controllers' workload

H Helmke, M Kleinert, N Ahrenhold, H Ehr… - Fifteenth USA/Europe …, 2023 - elib.dlr.de
Air traffic controllers (ATCos) from Austro Control together with DLR quantified the benefits of
automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU) on workload and flight safety. As …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and managing risks of ai-driven operations: A case study of automatic speech recognition for improving air traffic safety

L Yi, R Min, C Kunjie, L Dan, Z Ziqiang, L Fan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the primary focus is to identify potential technical risks of Artificial Intelligence
(AI)-driven operations for the safety monitoring of the air traffic from the perspective of …

Contextual semi-supervised learning: An approach to leverage air-surveillance and untranscribed ATC data in ASR systems

J Zuluaga-Gomez, I Nigmatulina, A Prasad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Air traffic management and specifically air-traffic control (ATC) rely mostly on voice
communications between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos) and pilots. In most cases, these …

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 …