Talk and draw: bundling speech and graphics

Author

Salisbury, Mark W. ; Hendrickson, Joseph H. ; Lammers, Terence L. ; Fu, Caroline ; Moody, Scott A.

Author_Institution

Boeing Aerosp. & Electron. Div., Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

1990

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

65

Abstract

A description is given of a workstation with integrated graphical and voice I/O (input/output), to improve the man-machine interface (MMI) of the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Incremental prototype development is used to improve the MMI for AWACS. Operator tasks were analyzed to identify functions that would be better performed with voice I/O, and a 70-word vocabulary and corresponding grammar were developed for an ITT VRS-1280 speech recognizer. Responses for a DEC Talker speech synthesizer were also developed. The system architecture for integrating voice and graphical input in the AWACS interface prototype and its implementation are described and development issues are examined. Future developments are considered.<>

Keywords

aerospace computer control; aerospace computing; computer graphics; military computing; speech recognition; speech synthesis; user interfaces; AWACS interface prototype; DEC Talker speech synthesizer; ITT VRS-1280 speech recognizer; MMI; airborne warning/control system; development issues; grammar; graphical input; man-machine interface; prototype development; system architecture; vocabulary; voice I/O; workstation; Control systems; Graphics; Performance analysis; Prototypes; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; User interfaces; Vocabulary; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.56872

Filename

56872