Following rapid advances in AI-based solutions, there has been growing
interest for the use of speech and language technologies for aeronautical
applications. Use cases range from assisting pilots by providing natural
language voice assistant capabilities, or live extraction of information from
air/ground communications, to simulation and training contexts to help reduce
instructor workload or perform analyses of interactions (adherence to
phraseology etc).
In aircraft cockpits, speech recognition software can be used to improve
command and control and allow analysis of radio communications to assist
pilots. Vocapia provides multilingual real-time solutions that enable live
analysis of interactions between humans or with the cockpit. Suitable for low
power embedded systems, our technology can be seamlessly integrated into
aeronautical platforms.
Through several recent studies in partnership with world-leading industrial
actors and both civil and military end-users, Vocapia has acquired a unique
in-depth experience tackling the challenges in developing language
technologies for aeronautical communications.
ATC communications - Vocapia has been ranked first at the
Airbus
ATC
challenge 2018 for both the speech recognition and call sign detection tasks.
The call sign detection task requires locating a flight identifier in the automatic transcription.
ASR in fighter jets - In 2019 Vocapia is awarded the
MEVAC
project,
funded under the DGA Man Machine Teaming initiative, an ambitious project
aimed at automatic speech recognition of highly degraded voice communications
in fighter jets.
Civil Aviation - Vocapia partners on two projects funded by the French DGAC, building
real-time bilingual (english/french) automatic speech recognition systems. The
covered use cases include :
- Transcription of ATIS messages for the automatic analysis of airport weather and runway
conditions;
- Transcription of air traffic control communications (reaching under 5% word error rate on real
accented English recordings);
- Transcription of helicopter pilot voice commands to change system settings such as radio
frequency and map configuration. The system is highly robust to the noisy cockpit environment,
enabling hands free interaction with the cockpit and helping
to reduce pilot cognitive load.
We offer consulting services to adapt our leading-edge solutions to match
customer use cases. Highly active in the research field, we are also open to
collaborating with industrial and academic partners on research and innovation
projects.
Currently supported languages: English, French.
