A Flight Evaluation of Voice Interaction as a Component of an Integrated Helicopter Avionics System.

Abstract

A Wessex helicopter at RAE Bedford was used to develop and evaluate an integrated avionics system which incorporated advanced displays and a flight management system for both military and civil applications. Two important features of the system were automatic speech recognition and synthetic speech output. Flight trials have been conducted to establish guidelines for the successful integration of these devices with advanced avionics such as colour displays, digital maps and touch overlays. The use of speech technology in the cockpit offers an element of redundancy and if correctly integrated will be capable of improving the man machine interface to a far greater degree than is achievable by hand or voice alone. The trial has shown that data input and retrieval from such a well structured cockpit management system can be achieved quickly, simply and easily. Keywords: Speech recognition; Flight evaluation; DVI. Speech output; Advanced Avionics; Helicopters; Great Britain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA187074

Entities

People

  • R. Cowan
  • R. Little

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ambient Noise
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Color Displays
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Maps
  • Frequency
  • Guidance
  • Instrument Flight
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Radar Altimeters
  • Recognition
  • Standards
  • Turbines

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML