COMMENTARY
SAY IT AGAIN
The best, most effective way of communicating is through natural language speaking—getting AI agents to recognize natural language is key in future developments. (Image by Getty Images)
to periods of reduced interest and funding. Automatic speech recognition is not immune to this fate. As the acquisition commu- nity, we want to provide the best tools available. At the same time, if we field automatic speech recognition that performs below commercial expectations, trust becomes a factor in whether or not those tools are used. While the commercial world will no doubt continue development of this technology as long as there’s money in it, only some features of a tactical application are considered dual-use. Speaker detection, for example, has a use when more than one person shares a virtual assistant, but mitigating a tacti- cal noise profile is less applicable to commercial devices. While several organizations, including the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and the RCCTO, have started testing various open-source automatic speech recognition models for particular tasks, the initial results have shown room for improvement with a tacti- cal noise profile. Training automatic speech recognition for high and variable noise levels is not something industry will prioritize for dual-use technology.
Te stakes for technology reliability are higher in a tactical situa- tion, where a mistake could result in the loss of a life rather than the wrong song being played. When we have a fight on our hands, it should be with the enemy, not with our technology, and we shouldn’t have to raise our voices just to be heard.
For more informat ion, contact Thom Hawkins at
jeffrey.t.hawkins10.civ@
mail.mil. For more information about
RCCTO and VAMO, contact Sean Dempsey at
sean.e.dempsey.ctr @
mail.mil and for more on JUDI, contact Matt Marge at
matthew.r.marge.civ@
mail.mil.
THOM HAWKINS is a project officer for artificial intelligence and data strategy with Project Manager Mission Command, assigned to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications – Tactical, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He holds an M.S. in library and information science from Drexel University and a B.A. in English from Washington College. He is Level III certified in program management and Level II certified in financial management, and is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps. He is an Army-certified Lean Six Sigma master black belt and holds Project Management Professional and Risk Management Professional credentials from the Project Management Institute.
DR. REGINALD HOBBS is chief of the Content Understand- ing Branch at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.S., both in computer science, from the Georgia Institute of Tech- nology and a B.S. in electronics from Chapman University. He has research interests and experience in the areas of software engineering, network science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He serves as an adjunct professor on the faculties of Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia.
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