%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 04:50:11 PM @INPROCEEDINGS{Helmke_SIDS2022_2022, author = {Helmke, Hartmut and Ond{\v r}ej, Karel and Shetty, Shruthi and Aril{\'{\i}}usson, H{\"{o}}r{\dh d}ur and Simiganoschi, Teodor S. and Kleinert, Matthias and Ohneiser, Oliver and Ehr, heiko and Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan and Smrz, Pavel}, keywords = {Air traffic control, Assistant Based Speech Recognition, machine learning, Readback Error Detection, speech recognition, speech understanding}, projects = {Idiap, HAAWAII}, month = dec, title = {Readback Error Detection by Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding -- Results of HAAWAII Project for Isavia’s Enroute Airspace}, booktitle = {11th SESAR Innovation Days}, series = {1}, volume = {1}, number = {1}, year = {2022}, pages = {9}, organization = {SESAR}, abstract = {One of the crucial tasks of an air traffic controller (ATCo) is to evaluate pilot readbacks and to react in case of errors. Undetected readback errors, when not corrected by the ATCo, can have a dramatic impact on air traffic management (ATM) safety. Although they seldom occur, the benefits of even one prevented incident due to automatic readback error detection justify the efforts. The HAAWAII project uses automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU) to support the ATCo in this critical task. This paper presents for readback error detection approaches: a rule-based and a data-driven approach based on machine learning. The combination of both detects 81\% of the readback error use cases on real-life voice recordings from Isavia’s en-route airspace. Proof-of-concept trials with six ATCos from Isavia producing artificial, but challenging readback error use cases resulted in a false alarm rate of 11\% and a readback error detection rate of 80\%. These results are based on Word Error Rates of 5\% for ATCos and 10\% for pilots, respectively.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2022/Helmke_SIDS2022_2022.pdf} }