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most citedATCO2 corpus: A Large-Scale Dataset for Research on Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding of Air Traffic Control Communications

14 citations · 44 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

XLSR-Transducer: Streaming ASR for Self-Supervised Pretrained Models

Shashi Kumar, Srikanth Madikeri, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +5

Self-supervised pretrained models exhibit competitive performance in automatic speech recognition on finetuning, even with limited in-domain supervised data. However, popular pretr…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

Implementing contextual biasing in GPU decoder for online ASR

Iuliia Nigmatulina, Srikanth Madikeri, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +4

GPU decoding significantly accelerates the output of ASR predictions. While GPUs are already being used for online ASR decoding, post-processing and rescoring on GPUs have not been…

eess.AS2023

Lessons Learned in ATCO2: 5000 hours of Air Traffic Control Communications for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Iuliia Nigmatulina, Amrutha Prasad +8

Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). This task requires high levels of awar…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Amrutha Prasad, Iuliia Nigmatulina +2

In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelli…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Speech and Natural Language Processing Technologies for Pseudo-Pilot Simulator

Amrutha Prasad, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Petr Motlicek +3

This paper describes a simple yet efficient repetition-based modular system for speeding up air-traffic controllers (ATCos) training. E.g., a human pilot is still required in EUROC…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Effectiveness of Text, Acoustic, and Lattice-based representations in Spoken Language Understanding tasks

Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Srikanth Madikeri, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +6

In this paper, we perform an exhaustive evaluation of different representations to address the intent classification problem in a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) setup. We benc…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

ATCO2 corpus: A Large-Scale Dataset for Research on Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding of Air Traffic Control Communications

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Karel Veselý, Igor Szöke +13

Personal assistants, automatic speech recognizers and dialogue understanding systems are becoming more critical in our interconnected digital world. A clear example is air traffic…

eess.AS2022★ 6 cited

How Does Pre-trained Wav2Vec 2.0 Perform on Domain Shifted ASR? An Extensive Benchmark on Air Traffic Control Communications

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Amrutha Prasad, Iuliia Nigmatulina +6

Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine-tuned…

cs.CL2022

A two-step approach to leverage contextual data: speech recognition in air-traffic communications

Iuliia Nigmatulina, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Amrutha Prasad +2

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and in…

eess.AS2021★ 3 cited

BERTraffic: BERT-based Joint Speaker Role and Speaker Change Detection for Air Traffic Control Communications

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo, Amrutha Prasad +5

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows transcribing the communications between air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and aircraft pilots. The transcriptions are used later to extract…

cs.CL2021★ 9 cited

Improving callsign recognition with air-surveillance data in air-traffic communication

Iuliia Nigmatulina, Rudolf Braun, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +1

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can be used as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers. Its application can significantly reduce the co…

cs.CL2021

Grammar Based Speaker Role Identification for Air Traffic Control Speech Recognition

Amrutha Prasad, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Petr Motlicek +4

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for air traffic control is generally trained by pooling Air Traffic Controller (ATCO) and pilot data into one set. This is motivated by the fact…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Contextual Semi-Supervised Learning: An Approach To Leverage Air-Surveillance and Untranscribed ATC Data in ASR Systems

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Iuliia Nigmatulina, Amrutha Prasad +4

Air traffic management and specifically air-traffic control (ATC) rely mostly on voice communications between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos) and pilots. In most cases, these voice…