TVIS: Tactical Voice Interaction Services for dismounted urban operations

Voice automated computing and speech recognition technology are beginning to revolutionize the commercial industry as speech recognition systems are becoming widely used in many real world applications, such as commercial banking and airline reservations. Speech has many advantages over other forms of communication, which make speech recognition systems useful to businesses and customers. We show the utility of speech recognition technology to support the command, control and information fusion needs of dismounted soldiers engaged in specialized tactical operations. In order to facilitate that, we propose developing the Tactical Voice Interactive System (TVIS). In this paper, we present the operational and systems architecture and vocabulary, grammar and sample voice choreographies that may occur when the system is used. These artifacts are used to illustrate autonomous voice access, which is defined as a soldierpsilas ability to voice authenticate, access, search and retrieve tactical information assets from backend systems equipped with speech recognition services. The authors believe that as voice and data networks continue to converge, speech recognition and integrated voice response (IVR) technology will drive the evolution of voice-enabled tactical communication portals, thus enabling soldiers to remotely access information through specialized voice enterprise services.