Selected military applications of automatic speech recognition technology

Cochannel Talker Interference Suppression

“…Listeners sometimes judge noise-suppressed channels to be more "readable" even when those channels offer no measurable improvement in intelligibility. This effect has been demonstrated in the evaluation of a noise-suppression system when the interference is a combination of impulsive, narrowband, and wideband random noise [61]. In fact, many systems that improve the perceived quality of speech in Gaussian noise actually degrade its intelligibility [25].…”

Using Semantics to Automatically Generate Speech Interfaces for Wearable Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

“…Applications relevant to the current work belong to the second class. The spectrum on command & control interfaces ranges from simple prompt and response interfaces to full sentence conversational agents, which have been experimented in a wide range of application scenarios encompassing air traffic control [30], medical practice [31], military operations [32], etc.…”

Controlling a prosthetic arm with a throat microphone

“…Nowadays using the voice to control an electronic device is a quite common process, and there are several electronic equipments that can be commanded by voice, such as telephones, surgery robots, wheelchairs ( [7], [8]), military devices ( [10]) and so on. A voice recognition system is composed by an input device, typically a microphone, and an intelligent core that performs the recognition operations, which are, for the most part, software elaborations of the signal acquired from the input device.…”