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) …

[PDF][PDF] Readback error detection by automatic speech recognition and understanding

H Helmke, K Ondrej, S Shetty, H Arilíusson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - researchgate.net
(ATCo) is to evaluate pilot readbacks and to react in case of errors. Undetected readback
errors, when not corrected by the ATCo, can have a dramatic impact on air traffic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing air traffic control communication systems with integrated automatic speech recognition: models, applications and performance evaluation

Z Wang, P Jiang, Z Wang, B Han, H Liang… - Sensors (Basel …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In air traffic control (ATC), speech communication with radio transmission is the primary way
to exchange information between the controller and the pilot. As a result, the integration of …

Speech and Natural Language Processing Technologies for Pseudo-Pilot Simulator

A Prasad, J Zuluaga-Gomez, P Motlicek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper describes a simple yet efficient repetition-based modular system for speeding up
air-traffic controllers (ATCos) training. Eg, a human pilot is still required in EUROCONTROL's …

Ending the Blind Flight: Analyzing the Impact of Acoustic and Lexical Factors on WAV2VEC 2.0 in Air-Traffic Control

A Blatt, BM Abdullah, D Klakow - 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer neural networks have shown remarkable success on standard automatic
speech recognition (ASR) benchmarks. However, they are known to be less robust against …

Grammar Based Speaker Role Identification for Air Traffic Control Speech Recognition

A Prasad, J Zuluaga-Gomez, P Motlicek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for air traffic control is generally trained by pooling Air
Traffic Controller (ATCO) and pilot data into one set. This is motivated by the fact that pilot's …