F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to use speech recognition

Just don't quote Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore while in flight.....

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

or try to give commands in heavy G's. Does it translate grunts? (not Marines)

It is much more complex type of system than switches in a very complex system.

Input follows the KISS principle but the systems are at the other end of the spectrum.

Brad

This is highly speculative, yet.

Speech Recognition is not yet a mature technology, especially not for Critical Real-Time control systems such as piloting, target acquisitions (not the automatic, but human controlled gear-and kit selection), and such.

It's not a mature technology in because:

1. It's environmentally sensitive and dependant in regard to isolation of extractable speech content from ambiance content.

2. It's still in the development realm of being case and context sensitive, which is yet a major AI desirable goal.

3. Speech and breathing under flight G levels are often unintelligible or ambiguous for rapid, and precise analysis and application.

4. For critical application such as real-time piloting, target acquisition (and such), viable commands have to be precise, absolutely reliable in interpretation for further execution.

It might be, however, that for some less critical apps, such as those linked to cockpit comfort, radio channel selection, navigation and route screen selection and such, similar technology to that found in PCs and cell-phones might be adopted, to ease the pilot effort, in pushing through screen and menu selection, manually.