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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for air traffic control is generally trained by pooling Air Traffic Controller (ATCO) and pilot data into one set. This is motivated by the fact that pilot's voice communications are more scarce than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Amrutha Prasad , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Saeed Sarfjoo , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Oliver Ohneiser , Hartmut Helmke

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 voice communications follow a well-defined grammar that could be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Amrutha Prasad , Petr Motlicek , Karel Veselý , Martin Kocour , Igor Szöke

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can be used as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers. Its application can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Iuliia Nigmatulina , Rudolf Braun , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek

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) based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Amrutha Prasad , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Petr Motlicek , Matthias Kleinert

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, voice communication and data links communications are the only way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Qingran Zhan , Karel Vesely , Rudolf Braun

In this paper, we describe the outcomes of the challenge organized and run by Airbus and partners in 2018. The challenge consisted of two tasks applied to Air Traffic Control (ATC) speech in English: 1) automatic speech-to-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Thomas Pellegrini , Jérôme Farinas , Estelle Delpech , François Lancelot

Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). This task requires high levels of awareness from ATCos and can be tedious and error-prone. Recent…

Personal assistants, automatic speech recognizers and dialogue understanding systems are becoming more critical in our interconnected digital world. A clear example is air traffic control (ATC) communications. ATC aims at guiding aircraft…

Effective communication in Air Traffic Control (ATC) is critical to maintaining aviation safety, yet the challenges posed by accented English remain largely unaddressed in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Existing models struggle…

This work provides a feasible solution to the existing airport surface safety monitoring capabilities (i.e., Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC)), namely language AI-based voice communication understanding for collision risk…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Yutian Pang , Andrew Paul Kendall , Alex Porcayo , Mariah Barsotti , Anahita Jain , John-Paul Clarke

Utilizing air-traffic control (ATC) data for downstream natural-language processing tasks requires preprocessing steps. Key steps are the transcription of the data via automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization, respectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Alexander Blatt , Aravind Krishnan , Dietrich Klakow

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Iuliia Nigmatulina , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Amrutha Prasad , Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Petr Motlicek

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows transcribing the communications between air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and aircraft pilots. The transcriptions are used later to extract ATC named entities, e.g., aircraft callsigns. One common…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Amrutha Prasad , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Petr Motlicek , Karel Ondrej , Oliver Ohneiser , Hartmut Helmke

Air traffic control (ATC) demands multi-tasking under time pressure with high consequences of an error. This can induce stress. Detecting stress is a key point in maintaining the high safety standards of ATC. However, processing ATC voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Janaki Viswanathan , Alexander Blatt , Konrad Hagemann , Dietrich Klakow

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is greatly developed in recent years, which expedites many applications on other fields. For the ASR research, speech corpus is always an essential foundation, especially for the vertical industry, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Bo Yang , Xianlong Tan , Zhengmao Chen , Bing Wang , Dan Li , Zhongping Yang , Xiping Wu , Yi Lin

In this work, we propose a new automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on feature learning and an end-to-end training procedure for air traffic control (ATC) systems. The proposed model integrates the feature learning block,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Peng Fan , Dongyue Guo , Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Jianwei Zhang

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) has attracted significant attention due to its flexible multimodal query method, yet its development is severely constrained by the Noisy Triplet Correspondence (NTC) problem. Most existing robust learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhiheng Fu , Yupeng Hu , Qianyun Yang , Shiqi Zhang , Zhiwei Chen , Zixu Li

Traffic signs are important in communicating information to drivers. Thus, comprehension of traffic signs is essential for road safety and ignorance may result in road accidents. Traffic sign detection has been a research spotlight over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mayura Manawadu , Udaya Wijenayake

Radio speech echo is a specific phenomenon in the air traffic control (ATC) domain, which degrades speech quality and further impacts automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. In this work, a time-domain recognition-oriented speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xincheng Yu , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Yi Lin
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