An Acoustic Analysis of ATC Communication.

Abstract

Radio communication is the primary means by which pilots and air traffic control specialists (ATCSs) transmit verbal messages between each other. Controllers learn to speak a particular grammar using a pre-defined cadence during their initial training at the FAA Academy and at their assigned air traffic control facility. In addition to the verbal message transmitted orally, the receiver also receives extralinguistic information conveyed by the speaker. Through additional training and experience, controllers learn to conceal potential emotional content from their speech. while researchers have not yet identified consistently reliable quantifiable factors, several aspects of speech production have been shown to be related to physiological and task-induced stress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA353962

Entities

People

  • O. Veronika Prinzo
  • Philip Lieberman

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustics
  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognition
  • Computers
  • Frequency
  • Language
  • Larynx
  • Linguistics
  • Parkinson'S Disease
  • Simulations
  • Speech Analysis
  • Thinking
  • Visual Inspection
  • Waveforms
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.