안전운항을 위한 사용자 친화적 음성 제어 시스템 개발

Abstract

As the technology of Speech Recognition (SR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) develops rapidly, voice control and guidance system is thought to be very helpful for safe navigation. However, Voice Control and Guidance System (VCGS) is not yet so popularly included in Navigation Supporting System (NSS). The main reason of this is that VCGS is so complicated and user-unfriendly that navigation officers hesitate to use VCGS. Frequent errors in operating VCGS due to low rate of SR are another reason. To make VCGS more practicable for safe navigation, we design the user-friendly VCGS. Firstly, by using interviews we survey functions and procedures that navigation officers want to be included in VCGS. Secondly, to raise the rate of SR, we tune the environmental noise in bridge and to reduce the errors due to low rate of SR in operating VCGS, we design the functions of self-correction. In addition, we apply a user-independent SR engine so that procedures of learning of speakers are not necessary. Using simulator experiments the functions and procedures of the user-friendly VCGS for safe navigation are evaluated and the results of evaluation are fed back to the design. Therefore, we can design the VCGS more helpful for safe navigation. In this paper, we describe the features of the user-friendly VCGS for safe navigation and discuss the results of simulator experiments.