Evaluation of Synthetic Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) Messages.

Abstract

This report describes an evaluation of the effectiveness of synthetic voice Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) messages in a simulated environment. The evaluation was conducted by ARINC and CTA, Incorporated, for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Center under contract DTFAO3-94-Q-00022. The evaluation consisted of a flight demonstration in the General Aviation Trainer (GAT) simulator at the FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ. The demonstration had the following objectives: (1) Evaluate synthetic voice messages using subjective measures of speed, clarity and intelligibility, and overall quality, and (2) Compare the pilots' responses to the synthetic voice messages with their responses to human voice messages. These objectives were achieved by evaluating subjective and objective measures collected from the pilots and cockpit observers during the flight demonstration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294117

Entities

People

  • Albert Rehmann
  • Margaaret Schaffer

Organizations

  • ARINC

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Aircrafts
  • Airports
  • Altimeters
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Links
  • Dew Point
  • Environment
  • Flight Simulators
  • International Airports
  • Observers
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Training Aircraft
  • United States
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.