COMPUTER VOICE AND SPEECH DATA ENTRY AND RECOGNITION

TO THE EXTENT THAT THE ADVENT OF COMPUTERIZED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS NEEDS AN EFFECTIVE MAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE WHICH IS NOT ENCUMBERED BY EXCESSIVE KEYBOARD INTERACTION, A REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS SPEECH INTERFACE CAN SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. UNTIL NOW, SPEECH-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES HAVE BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY LIMITED VOCABULARY, RESTRICTED SYNTAX, AND WORD ISOLATION. THIS STUDY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITYOF CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION BY COMPUTERS AND THE CONVERSION OF SPEECH INTO ASCII, EVALUATE HOW MACHINES SHOULD RECOGNIZE LARGE HUMAN VOCABULARIES AND COMPLEX SYNTAXES, AND RESEARCH THE HUMAN FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE SPEECH INPUT AND MACHINE FEEDBACK OF THE MAN-MACHINE INTERACTION.