Spoken instruction understanding in air traffic control: Challenge, technique, and application

Y Lin - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
In air traffic control (ATC), speech communication with radio transmission is the primary way
to exchange information between the controller and aircrew. A wealth of contextual …

Lessons learned in transcribing 5000 h of air traffic control communications for robust automatic speech understanding

J Zuluaga-Gomez, I Nigmatulina, A Prasad, P Motlicek… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring
safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). The handling of these voice communications …

How does pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 perform on domain-shifted asr? an extensive benchmark on air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, A Prasad… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled
speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine …

Atco2 corpus: A large-scale dataset for research on automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding of air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, K Veselý, I Szöke, A Blatt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Personal assistants, automatic speech recognizers and dialogue understanding systems are
becoming more critical in our interconnected digital world. A clear example is air traffic …

A virtual simulation-pilot agent for training of air traffic controllers

J Zuluaga-Gomez, A Prasad, I Nigmatulina, P Motlicek… - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic
controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) …

Automatic call sign detection: Matching air surveillance data with air traffic spoken communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, K Veselý, A Blatt, P Motlicek… - Proceedings, 2020 - mdpi.com
Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-
Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of …

Automatic speech recognition benchmark for air-traffic communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, P Motlicek, Q Zhan, K Vesely… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas
of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environment. Currently …

Contextual semi-supervised learning: An approach to leverage air-surveillance and untranscribed ATC data in ASR systems

J Zuluaga-Gomez, I Nigmatulina, A Prasad… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Air traffic management and specifically air-traffic control (ATC) rely mostly on voice
communications between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos) and pilots. In most cases, these …

Bertraffic: Bert-based joint speaker role and speaker change detection for air traffic control communications

J Zuluaga-Gomez, SS Sarfjoo, A Prasad… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows transcribing the communications between air
traffic controllers (ATCOs) and aircraft pilots. The transcriptions are used later to extract ATC …

[PDF][PDF] Boosting of Contextual Information in ASR for Air-Traffic Call-Sign Recognition.

M Kocour, K Veselý, A Blatt, J Zuluaga-Gomez… - …, 2021 - lsv.uni-saarland.de
Contextual adaptation of ASR can be very beneficial for multiaccent and often noisy Air-
Traffic Control (ATC) speech. Our focus is call-sign recognition, which can be used to track …