Application of discrete word recognition and response to multiuser tactical communications: WRS

Advanced development of the Word Recognition System (WRS) will result in a system that provides direct, two-way verbal communication between front-line personnel and the Army Tactical Data Systems (ARTADS) using discrete word recognition, speaker identification and verification, and voice response techniques. The minicomputer based WRS will achieve fully automated real-time prompting, message translation, and synthesized-speech response over three communication nets simultaneously for any 3 of 64 users with a recognition vocabulary of approximately 250 words. Speech recognition/ synthesis technology is combined with a complex syntactical handler and operating system to achieve these objectives in the field environment.