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A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

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)-based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine receives spoken ...

MDPI2023

Validating Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding for Pre-Filling Radar Labels-Increasing Safety While Reducing Air Traffic Controllers' Workload

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Automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU) for air traffic control (ATC) has been investigated in different ATC environments and applications. The objective of this study was to quantify the effect of ASRU support for air traffic controllers (AT ...

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Sparse Autoencoders for Speech Modeling and Recognition

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Speech recognition-based applications upon the advancements in artificial intelligence play an essential role to transform most aspects of modern life. However, speech recognition in real-life conditions (e.g., in the presence of overlapping speech, varyin ...

EPFL2023

Explanation of Face Recognition via Saliency Maps

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Despite the significant progress in recent years, deep face recognition is often treated as a "black box" and has been criticized for lacking explainability. It becomes increasingly important to understand the characteristics and decisions of deep face rec ...

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A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

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 increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead ...

IEEE2022

How Does Pre-Trained Wav2Vec 2.0 Perform On Domain-Shifted Asr? An Extensive Benchmark On Air Traffic Control Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

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-tuned on downstream tasks e.g., automatic speech recognition (ASR). Yet, few work ...

IEEE2022

Automatic Call Sign Detection: Matching Air Surveillance Data with Air Traffic Spoken Communications

Petr Motlicek, Amrutha Prasad

Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of speech recognition technology to automatically extract spoken key information suc ...

MDPI2021

Contextual Semi-Supervised Learning: An Approach To Leverage Air-Surveillance and Untranscribed ATC Data in ASR Systems

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

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 voice communications follow a well-defined grammar that could be leveraged in Aut ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Utterance Verification-Based Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Assessment Using Phonetic Posterior Features

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In the literature, the task of dysarthric speech intelligibility assessment has been approached through development of different low-level feature representations, subspace modeling, phone confidence estimation or measurement of automatic speech recognitio ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Novel Methods for Incorporating Prior Knowledge for Automatic Speech Assessment

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Speech signal conveys several kinds of information such as a message, speaker identity, emotional state of the speaker and social state of the speaker. Automatic speech assessment is a broad area that refers to using automatic methods to predict human judg ...

EPFL2021