METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING SPEECH TO ASSIST MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

• US 20160086389A1
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Mylaraswamy, Dinkar, Voges, Harold Carl, Garg, Chaya, De Mers, Robert E., Xu, Brian H.
• Application Number:
  US14/492,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20160086389A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/00 Designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for; Handling, transporting, testing or inspecting aircraft components, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1822 Parsing for meaning understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for recording natural conversation of a user of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: recognizing speech from the recording; processing the recognized speech to determine a meaning associated with the speech; identifying a category of the speech based on the meaning; and generating a maintenance report to be used by a maintainer of the vehicle based on the category and the speech.

Claims

1. A method of speech processing, comprising:

recording natural conversation of a user of a vehicle;

recognizing speech from the recording;

processing the recognized speech to determine a meaning associated with the speech;

identifying a category of the speech based on the meaning; and

generating a maintenance report to be used by a maintainer of the vehicle based on the category and the speech.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the speech to recognize key words, and wherein the processing the speech to determine the meaning comprises processing the speech having the key words to determine the meaning of the speech.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the speech based on the category.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating signals including the report and communicating the signals.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the communicating comprises communicating the signals by at least one of email and text message.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the communicating comprises communicating the signals on a data bus.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the communicating comprises communicating the signals to a remote server.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the report comprises generating a report having multiple sections and wherein the multiple sections are populated with the speech based on categories associated with the sections.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and wherein the method further comprises capturing aircraft data at least one of before, during, and after an occurrence of the natural conversation.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising associating the aircraft data with at least one of the speech and the category and storing the aircraft data based on the at least one of speech and the category.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the key words are mapped to a discussion of a condition of an aircraft.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the category identifies an element of a condition of an aircraft.

13. A system for managing for speech processing, comprising:

an input device that records a natural conversation of a user of a vehicle; and

a processor that recognizes speech from the recording, processes the speech to determine a meaning of the speech, identifies a category of the speech based on the meaning, and generates a maintenance report to be used by a maintainer of the vehicle based on the category and the speech.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor processes the speech to recognize key words, and processes the speech having the key words to determine the meaning of the speech.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor stores the speech based on the category.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor generates signals including the report and communicates the signals.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor generates a report having multiple sections populates the multiple sections with the speech based on categories associated with the multiple sections.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and wherein the processor captures aircraft data at least one of before, during, and after an occurrence of the natural conversation, and associates the aircraft data with at least one of the speech and the category and storing the aircraft data based on the at least one of speech and the category.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the key words indicate a discussion of a condition of an aircraft.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the category identifies an element of a condition of an aircraft.