Test flights were carried out to assess a voice command solution to simplify
basic pilot tasks : a promising and effective solution that integrates
Vocapia's AI-based speech recognition technology, along with language
understanding features.
This successful operation was led in close collaboration with Thales under
partial financing by the French DGAC. Vocapia's VoxSigma software was adapted
to target a defined command syntax, while still covering a large vocabulary to
allow for some flexibility in the formulations. The system is highly robust to
the noisy cockpit environment, obtaining over 99% accuracy on non-native
pronunciations of the English commands.
During the flight tests, the pilot was able to orally control the avionics
system to adjust the radio frequencies, configure the digital map display or
revise the flight plan. When the test pilot gave his verdict, the smiles
widened on the faces of the team members present. "The results are, at this
stage, very impressive. I have almost completely outgrown simple touch
controls for interacting with the map". This new feature reduces the pilot's
time spent with their head down during visual flight, a real operational value
in a helicopter cockpit.
About Vocapia Research
Vocapia Research is a French R&D company and software publisher with over
20 years of experience in providing leading edge speech technologies for many
languages, including most major European languages as well as Arabic,
Mandarin, and Russian. The Vocapia Research VoxSigma
® software
suite uses advanced language technologies such as language identification,
speech recognition, and speaker identification to transform raw audio and
audiovisual data into structured and searchable XML documents. This technology
relies on decades of research at LISN, with which there is a privileged
partnership. Joint systems developed with LISN have achieved top ranks in
national and international challenges on speech-to-text transcription. Located
at the heart of the science innovation cluster of Paris Saclay, France,
Vocapia Research is a leader in developing and adapting AI-based solutions for
both civil and defence applications. These applications include audio and
audiovisual data mining (broadcast and web data, telephone speech), production
of subtitles, OSINT and COMINT, and the analysis of aeronautical
communications (air traffic control, voice command). Readers who wish to get
more information about Vocapia Research are invited to check out the Vocapia
Research website or use the contact information
page
http://www.vocapia.com/contact.
