EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC AUTOMATIC TERMINAL INFORMATION SERVICE (ATIS) MESSAGES

This report describes an evaluation of the effectiveness of synthetic voice Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) messages in a simulated environment, The evaluation was conducted by ARINC and CTA, Incorporated, for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Center under contract DTFAO3-94-Q-00022. The evaluation consisted of a flight demonstration in the General Aviation Trainer (GAT) simulator at the FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ. The demonstration had the following objectives: 1) Evaluate synthetic voice messages using subjective measures of speed, clarity and intelligibility, and overall quality, and 2) Compare the pilots' responses to the synthetic voice messages with their responses to human voice messages. These objectives were achieved by evaluating subjective and objective measures collected from the pilots and cockpit observers during the flight demonstration.

• Corporate Authors:

  ARINC Research Corporation

  2251 Riva Road
  Annapolis, MD  United States  21401
• Authors:
  • Rehmen, A
  • Schaffer, M
• Publication Date: 1995-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 40 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airline pilots; Automated vehicle control; Cockpit resource management; Personnel performance; Simulation; Speech; Speech synthesis; Voice communication
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pilot performance
• Old TRIS Terms: Automatic terminal information service
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00719162
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-FAA-CT-TN95-17
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 24 1996 12:00AM