Vulnerability of Female Produced Speech in Operational Environments.

Abstract

The role of women in combat environments has expanded dramatically. The accommodation of females in these previously male dominated environments is vital to fully successful mission accomplishment. Effective voice communications are critical to successful strategic and tactical operations. Current aircraft communications systems and components were optimized for male voice characteristics. Based on laboratory experience and knowledge of the basic characteristics of male and female acoustic speech, many questions exist concerning possible differential effects of operational variables on female speech. This study investigates the impact of the following factors on the perception of female speech: (a) the different spectra of operational noise environments, (b) the response characteristics of noise-cancelling microphones, (c) digital encoding and decoding, and (d) accuracy of automatic speech recognition systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1995
Accession Number
ADA308693

Entities

People

  • Angela R. Mccavitt
  • Charles W. Nixon
  • Linda J. Morris
  • Mark P. Mcdaniel
  • Timothy R. Anderson

Organizations

  • Armstrong Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Automatic
  • Coding
  • Decoding
  • Environment
  • Message Decoding
  • Message Processing
  • Microphones
  • Notation
  • Perception
  • Recognition
  • Spectra
  • Voice Communications

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy