The disclosure relates to the field of speech recognition, and more particularly to an evaluation method and system of an air traffic control (ATC) speech recognition system.
In recent years, with a continuous development of an aviation industry, a number of flights is also increasing year by year, which poses a more severe challenge to keep air traffic smooth and ensure flight safety. Communication and coordination between air traffic controllers and the controller sending a control instruction to crew are main means to adjust flight conflict, promote smooth air traffic, and ensure flight safety. Therefore, it is of great significance to correctly understand air traffic control (ATC) speech to ensure flight safety.
A speech recognition system can convert speech information to text information, thus increasing an information acquisition dimension to prevent an incorrect understanding for information between the controllers and between the controller and the crew, relieving workload of the controller, and ensuring the flight safety. An ATC instruction is a language with professional characteristics, main features of the ATC instruction include fast speech speed, concise and fixed instruction structure and special pronunciation. In the current stage, a quality of the speech recognition system is uneven, different speech recognition systems consider different emphasizes, such as response time, accuracy and other indexes, which makes performance and a recognition effect of the speech recognition system have a big difference, and there is a lack of a method for evaluating the quality of the speech recognition system to quantitatively evaluate the speech recognition system uniformly.
In a field of speech recognition, current evaluation methods are mainly aimed at voice quality and recognition algorithm, an evaluation method for the speech recognition system has not proposed yet. Based on a particularity of an ATC field, it is necessary to propose an evaluation method of an ATC speech recognition system in the ATC field based on traditional system evaluation methods, to overcome a problem of unified quantitative evaluation of the speech recognition systems in the ATC field.
A purpose of the disclosure is to overcome a problem of unified quantitative evaluation of a speech recognition system in the related art, and provide an evaluation method and system of an air traffic control (ATC) speech recognition system.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the disclosure provides the following technical solutions.
An evaluation method of an ATC speech recognition system is provided, and the evaluation method includes:
In an exemplary embodiment, the evaluation method of the ATC speech recognition system further includes: comparing the level of the recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system with levels of the recognition performance of other ATC speech recognition systems individually, thereby to obtain a target ATC speech recognition system, and applying the target ATC speech recognition system to recognize an ATC instruction, to thereby make an air traffic controller or a crew member correctly understand the ATC instruction.
In an embodiment, in step S2, the utility layer indexes include accuracy indexes and a recognition rate index, the recognition rate index includes a processing time consumption, and the processing time consumption refers to a time consumed from a moment when the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system receives completely inputted ATC speech data to a moment when the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system recognizes a result and outputs the result.
In an embodiment, the accuracy indexes include a sentence accuracy, a word accuracy and a keyword accuracy, and a calculation expression of the keyword accuracy is expressed as follows:
where Kacc represents the keyword accuracy, Kerror represents a number of keyword errors in a sentence, and Ktotal represents a total number of keywords in a sentence.
In an embodiment, in step S2, the support layer indexes include reliability indexes and maintainability indexes.
In an embodiment, in step S4, calculation formulas of Z+ and Z− of the index in the improved TOPSIS method are as follows:
where z11 represents a first index value of a first system, z21 represents a first index value of a second system, z22 represents a second index value of a second system, z22 represents a n-th index value of the second system, and znn represents a n-th index value of a n-th system.
In an embodiment, in step S7, the determining, according to the comprehensive score of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system, a level of the recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system includes: determining, according to the comprehensive score of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system and a determination principle, the level of the recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system; and the determination principle includes:
An evaluation system of the ATC speech recognition system is provided, the evaluation system includes at least one processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least one processor, the memory stores an instruction executed by the at least one processor, and the instruction is configured to be executed by the at least one processor, to make the at least one processor to execute any one steps of the evaluation method.
Compared to the related art, beneficial effects of the disclosure are as follows.
The disclosure will be described in detail below in conjunction with embodiments and specific implementations. However, it cannot be understood that a scope of the above topics of the disclosure is merely limited to the following embodiments, and all technologies implemented based on a content of the disclosure fall within a scope of the disclosure.
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In step S1, air traffic control (ATC) speech data is obtained, the ATC speech data is graded to obtain ATC speech data with different quality levels, and the ATC speech data with different quality levels is inputted into a to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system.
In step S2, an evaluation index system is constructed, and indexes of the evaluation index system include utility layer indexes and support layer indexes.
In step S3, weights of the utility layer indexes and weights of the support layer indexes under the ATC speech data with different quality levels are determined by using an improved group-G2 method and an improved criteria importance through intercriteria correlation (CRITIC) method.
In step S4, scores of a utility layer and scores of a support layer under the ATC speech data with different quality levels are calculated according to the weights of the utility layer indexes and the weights of the support layer indexes under the ATC speech data with different quality levels and by using an improved technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method, the scores of the utility layer are added to obtain a comprehensive score of the utility layer, and the scores of the support layer are added to obtain a comprehensive score of the support layer. The TOPSIS method is to determine Z+ and Z− of an index through a statistical method, to thereby score a recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system. Z+ represents a set containing target values of evaluation indexes of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system, and Z− represents a set containing worst values of the evaluation indexes of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system.
In step S5, a weight of the utility layer and a weight of the support layer of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system are determined according to the comprehensive score of the utility layer and the comprehensive score of the support layer and by using the improved group-G2 method and the improved CRITIC method.
In step S6, the weight of the utility layer and the comprehensive score of the utility layer are multiplied to obtain a first product, the weight of the support layer and the comprehensive score of the support layer are multiplied to obtain a second product, and the first product and the second product are added to obtain a comprehensive score of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system.
In step S7, a level of the recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system is determined according to the comprehensive score of the to-be-evaluated ATC speech recognition system.
The improved group-G2 method is a subjective weighting method with high flexibility and can largely reflect risk awareness characteristics of experts, and the improved group-G2 method includes the following steps (1)-(4).
In step (1), a weight of a minimum class non empty intersection (i.e., a comprehensive assignment interval of an expert for indexes) is calculated as follows.
xi represents an evaluation index, xm represents a least important index recognized by the experts, ai(k) represents a ratio of importance degree between the index xi and the index xm by an expert k. Di(k) represents an assignment interval of ai(k), where d1i(k) and d2i(k) are respectively left and right end points of the interval, for the index m, d1m(k)=d2m(k)=1 (the least important index is set as 1). Therefore, a minimum class non empty intersection of Di(k) is set as DiA, let a set S={1, 2, 3, . . . , L (L experts)}, and the minimum class non empty intersection DiA should satisfy the following conditions 1-3.
In condition 1, A represents a non-empty subset of S.
In condition 2, DiA=∩k∈ADi(k)≠Ø.
In condition 3, w∈S exists, and w∉A, and all of this satisfy DiA∩Di(w)=Ø.
2) Adjacency degree: n is set as a number of the minimum class non empty intersections of an i-th index, DiA
3) Capacity: Pj is set as a capacity of DiA
4) A calculation formula of a weight of the minimum class non empty intersection is expressed as follows:
where vj represents a weight of the j-th minimum class non empty intersection.
In step (2), the comprehensive assignment interval of the expert for the index is calculated as follows.
A formula of the comprehensive assignment interval of the group experts on a comprehensive importance of an index is expressed as follows:
where n represents a number of the minimum class non-empty intersections, and m represents a number of indexes.
In step (3), a risk attitude factor is determined as follows.
Ik* represents an adjacency degree between the assignment interval Di(k) of the ratio of importance degree between the index xi and the index xm by the expert and other assignment intervals, and calculation formulas of Ik* are expressed as follows:
where rk represents a result of normalizing the adjacency degree of the assignment interval of the k-th expert.
A calculation formula of a risk attitude factor λi is expressed as follows:
Relevant concepts involved in the above formula are as follows.
1) n(Di(k)) represents a middle point of the assignment interval Di(k); and QiL represents a number of middle points on a left of n(Di).
2) n(Di(Nh)) represents a h-th middle point on an assignment interval to the left of n(Di) from left to right.
3) QiR represents a number of middle points on a right of n(Di), and contains n(Di); and QiL+QiR=L.
4) n(Di(Mh)) represents a h-th middle point on an assignment interval to the right of n(Di) from left to right, and contains a middle point of the interval n(Di).
5) LSih represents a distance between n(Di(Nh)) and n(Di), RSih represents a distance between n(Di(Mh)) and n(Di), LSih/d1 represents a left deviation distance between n(Di(Nh)) and n(Di), and h=1, 2, 3, . . . , QiL; RSih/d2 represents a right deviation distance between n(Di(Mh)) and n(Di); and d1=n(Di)−n(Di(N1)).
6) n(Di(N1)) represents a middle point on the left of n(Di) and facing away from n(Di); d2=n(Di(Mh))−n(Di), and h=QiR; and n(Di(Mh)) represents a middle point on the right of n(Di) and facing away from n(Di).
In step (4), a weight of the index is determined as follows.
wi is set as a weight of the i-th index, and a formula of wi is expressed as follows:
The improved CRITIC method is an objective weighting method, an existing entropy weighting method only considers an information entropy value of data, while an existing CRITIC method only considers fluctuation and conflict of data. Therefore, the improved CRITIC method is needed, the improved CRITIC method fully considers the fluctuation, the conflict and the information entropy value of the data, and the improved CRITIC method includes the following steps (1)-(7).
In step (1), an evaluation index matrix is constructed.
In step (2), data is standardized, which mainly makes performance normalized and standardized.
In step (3), a proportion of an i-th object of a j-th index is calculated, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
In step (4), an information entropy of the j-th index is calculated, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
In step (5), a standard deviation of data is calculated, and calculation formulas are expressed as follows:
In step (6), a correlation matrix of the data is calculated, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
In step (7), a weight is calculated, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
where rij represents a correlation coefficient of the i-th index and the j-th index.
A fusion formula of a subjective weight and an objective weight is expressed as follows:
where wok represents an objective weight of an index k, and wsk represents a subjective weight of the index k.
An introduction of the improved TOPSIS method is as follows.
(1) The TOPSIS method before improving includes the following steps 1) to 2).
In step 1), normalizations of the indexes are as follows.
In the utility layer, accuracy indexes are extremely large indexes, a processing time consumption index is an extremely small index, and it is necessary to convert the processing time consumption index to an extremely large index. In the support layer, a maintainability exponent, a mean time between failures (MTBF) and a mean time to failure (MTTF) are extremely large indexes, and a module coupling degree and a mean time to repair (MTTR) are extremely small indexes, and it is necessary to convert the module coupling degree and the mean time to repair to extremely large indexes.
In step 2), standardization of the data is as follows.
In order to eliminate effects of dimensions of different indexes, it is necessary to normalize and standardize the index data matrix, thus obtaining a usable evaluation index matrix, a score of each evaluation object is calculated according to a scoring formula, and the score is calculated based on the following distance formula:
Specifically, a maximum and a minimum of an index are found and recorded as Zj+ and Zj−, and a distance formula of a j-th index of an i-th evaluation object and the maximum is expressed as follows:
where Z+ represents a maximum of the j-th index, and zij represents a j-th normalized and standardized index value of the i-th evaluation object.
Similarly, a distance formula of the j-th index of the i-th evaluation object and the minimum is expressed as follows:
where wj represents a weight of the index j; and a score Si of the i-th evaluation object is calculated as follows:
(2) The improved TOPSIS method includes the following steps 1) to 3).
In step 1), indexes are normalized.
In step 2), data is standardized.
In step 3), a score is calculated.
Formulas proposed in the TOPSIS method before improving is only applicable when there are multiple objects to be evaluated, calculation results of different batches of evaluation objects may not be comparable due to a lack of unified standards during calculation, and scoring results vary greatly when calculated in different batches for a same system.
In the embodiment, determination formulas of Z+ and Z− of the index determined by using the improved TOPSIS method and a statistical method are expressed as follows:
For evaluating the speech recognition system, the index value is fixed, Z+ and Z− of the index are determined by the statistical method, and a recognition performance of each to-be-evaluated objects is scored by using the statistical method, so as to achieve scoring for a single object, and the to-be-evaluated objects of different batches have comparability due to unified standards.
A level of the recognition performance of the speech recognition system is graded according to the comprehensive score of the speech recognition system obtained by the method of the disclosure, which are divided into levels 1-5, and level 5 is the highest level. In response to the comprehensive score being a range of 0.0-0.3 scores, containing 0.3 scores, a level of the recognition performance is level 1; in response to the comprehensive score being a range of 0.3-0.5 scores, containing 0.5 scores, a level of the recognition performance is level 2; in response to the comprehensive score being a range of 0.5-0.7 scores, containing 0.7 scores, a level of the recognition performance is level 3; in response to the comprehensive score being a range of 0.7-0.9 scores, containing 0.9 scores, a level of the recognition performance is level 4; and in response to the comprehensive score being a range of 0.9-1.0 scores, containing 1.0 score, a level of the recognition performance is level 5.
A specific recognition performance of each level is as follows.
When the level of the recognition performance is level 1, the recognition system has a low vocabulary and a slow recognition speed, a recognition result does not meet a standard specification, the recognition system can only effectively recognize specific input audio, robustness of the recognition system is poor, and the recognition performance cannot meet requirements.
When the level of the recognition performance is level 2, the recognition system has a limited vocabulary and a slow recognition speed, a grammar structure of a recognition result deviates significantly from the standard specification, the recognition system is more susceptible to interference from audio, resulting in significant deviations in the recognition result, and requires a high standard for input speech, resulting in a poor overall recognition performance.
When the level of the recognition performance is level 3, a vocabulary of the recognition system meets a basic requirement, a grammar structure of a recognition result basically meets the standard specification, a recognition speed is normal, some insertion and deletion errors occur occasionally, and some words are ambiguous.
When the level of the recognition performance is level 4, a vocabulary of the recognition system has a wide coverage, a grammar structure of a recognition result meets the standard specification, a recognition speed is fast, and some words are ambiguous.
When the level of the recognition performance is level 5, a vocabulary of the recognition system has a wide coverage, a grammar structure of a recognition result meets the standard specification, a recognition speed is fast, and recognition is correct and is not ambiguous.
In an embodiment, in step 1, the obtained ATC speech data is graded to 5 levels according to a mean opinion score (MOS) terminology, and a gradation state is shown in Table 1.
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In an embodiment, in step 2, the utility layer indexes include the accuracy indexes and a recognition rate index, the accuracy indexes include a sentence accuracy, a word accuracy and a keyword accuracy, and the utility layer indexes are shown in
An expression for calculating the sentence accuracy is expressed as follows:
where Sacc represents the sentence accuracy, Es represents a number of misrecognized sentences, and St represents a total number of recognized sentences.
An expression for calculating the word accuracy is expressed as follows:
where Wacc represents the word accuracy, T represents a number of correctly recognized words, and N represents a total number of words.
An expression for calculating the keyword accuracy is expressed as follows:
where Kacc represents the keyword accuracy, Kerror represents a number of keyword errors in a sentence, and Ktotal represents a total number of keywords in a sentence
The recognition rate index includes a processing time consumption, and the processing time consumption refers to a time consumed from a moment when the ATC speech recognition system receives completely inputted ATC speech data to a moment when the ATC speech recognition system recognizes a result and outputs the result.
In an embodiment, in step S2, the support layer indexes include reliability indexes and maintainability indexes.
The reliability indexes include a MTTF, a MTTR and a MTBF.
As shown in
where T1 represents a time to operate without failures, and n represents a number of time periods between the start of normal operation and the occurrence of the malfunction of the speech recognition system.
The MTTR refers to a mean time of time periods between the occurrence of the malfunction and an end of maintenance of the speech recognition system, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
The MTBF refers to a mean time of time periods between two failures of the speech recognition system, and a calculation formula is expressed as follows:
where T1 represents the time to operate without failures, T2 represents the time taken from the start of the malfunction to a start of maintenance, T3 represents the time of maintenance, and n represents a number of time periods between two failures.
The maintainability indexes include a maintainability exponent and a module coupling degree.
A calculation formula of the maintainability exponent is expressed as follows:
where HV represents a Halstead value, CC represents a cyclomatic complexity, LOC represents an average number of code lines for each module, and COM represents a percentage of comment lines for each module.
A calculation formula of the module coupling degree is expressed as follows:
where di represents a number of inputted data parameters, ci represents a number of inputted control parameters, do represents a number of outputted data parameters, co represents a number of global couplings of outputted control parameters, gd represents a global variable for storing data, gc represents a global variable for controlling environmental coupling, w represents a number of fan-out modules called by the module, and r represents a number of fan-in modules calling the modules.
In an embodiment, in step S3, the weights of the utility layer indexes and the weights of the support layer indexes under the ATC speech data with different quality levels are determined by using the improved group-G2 method and the improved CRITIC method, and step 3 specifically includes the following steps S31-S33.
In step S1, a subjective weight of each utility layer index is calculated by using the improved group-G2 method, the improved group-G2 method is a subjective weighting method for inflecting risk awareness characteristics of the experts, and formulas are expressed as follows:
where fλ
In step S2, an objective weight of each utility layer index under the ATC speech data with different quality levels is calculated by using the improved CRITIC method, the improved CRITIC method is an objective weighting method for the fluctuation, the conflict and the information entropy value of the data, and formulas are expressed as follows:
where Pij represents the proportion of the i-th object of the j-th index, ej represents the information entropy value of the j-th index, Sj represents a standard deviation of the data, rij represents a correlation coefficient of the i-th index and the j-th index, and Wj represents an objective weight.
In step S33, the weight obtained by the subjective weighting method (i.e., the improved group-G2 method) and the weight obtained by the objective weighting method (i.e., the improved CRITIC method) are fused to obtain a comprehensive weights of each utility layer index and a comprehensive weight of each support layer index under the ATC speech data with different quality levels, and a formula is expressed as follows:
where wok represents the objective weight of the index k, and wsk represents the subjective weight of the index k.
The evaluation method of the ATC speech recognition system is adopted in the embodiment, four speech recognition systems are actually simulated for instance validation by using a Matlab 2020 software, a system 1, a system 2 and a system 3 are used to calculate weights, and a system 4 is used to final score. Performance of the utility layer indexes and the support layer indexes of each system under the ATC speech data with five quality levels are listed as follows.
The performance of the utility layer indexes of the systems under the ATC speech data with different quality levels is as follows.
87%
90%
92%
93%
Performance of the support layer indexes of the systems is as follows.
The improved group-G2 method and the improved CRITIC method are combined to calculate the subjective weight and the objective weight of each utility layer index under the ATC speech data with different quality levels, and the subjective weight and the objective weight are fused to obtain the comprehensive weight of each utility layer index under the ATC speech data with different quality levels; and a same method is used to determine the comprehensive weight of each support layer index.
The improved group-G2 method is used to calculate the weight of each utility layer index.
[1, 1]
[1, 1]
Specifically, the index 1 is the sentence accuracy; the index 2 is the word accuracy; the index 3 is the keyword accuracy; and the index 4 is the processing time consumption.
Similarly, the weights of the utility layer indexes under 4 levels ATC speech data obtained by using the improved group-G2 method are shown in Table 9.
[5, 6.5]
[3, 4.5]
[2, 3.5]
[3, 3.5]
[3, 3.5]
[4, 5.5]
Weights of the utility layer indexes and the support layer indexes calculated by using the improved CRITIC method are as follows.
The weights of the utility layer indexes under the ATC speech data with different quality levels calculated by using the improved CRITIC method are shown in Table 11-15.
The information carrying capacity is obtained by multiplying conflict and volatility of data.
Weights of the support layer indexes calculated by using the improved CRITIC method is shown in Table 16.
Comprehensive weights of the utility layer indexes are calculated as follows.
An optimal value and a worst value of each index obtained from simulation statistics are substituted into the improved TOPSIS method to calculate scores of the utility layers and the support layers of the system 1, the system 2 and the system 3 under 5 level speech data, and a fixed comprehensive weight of the utility layer and a fixed comprehensive weight of the support layer are calculated by using the improved group-G2 method and the improved CRITIC method.
Optimal values and worst values of the utility layer indexes under level 1 speech data are shown in Table 19.
Optimal values and worst values of the utility layer indexes under level 2 speech data are shown in Table 20.
Optimal values and worst values of the utility layer indexes under level 3 speech data are shown in Table 21.
Optimal values and worst values of the utility layer indexes under level 4 speech data are shown in Table 22.
Optimal values and worst values of the utility layer indexes under level 5 speech data are shown in Table 23.
87%
87%
87%
Scores of the utility layers of the systems are as follows.
Scores of the support layers of the systems are as follows.
Weights of the utility layer indexes and the support layer indexes of the system 4 obtained by using the improved group-G2 method are as follows.
[1, 1]
Weights of the utility layer indexes and the support layer indexes of the system 4 obtained by using the improved CRITIC method are as follows.
Comprehensive weights of the utility layer and the support layer of the system 4 are calculated as follows.
Optimal values and worst values of the scores of the utility layer indexes and the support layer indexes obtained from simulation statistics are substituted into the improved TOPSIS method to calculate a final score of the system 4.
Optimal values and worst values of the scores of the utility layer and the support layer are as follows.
Scores of the utility layer of the system 4 under levels 1-5 speech data are calculated according to the dynamic weights of the utility layer indexes under the speech data with different quality levels.
According to the fixed weight of each support layer index, the score of the support layer of the system 4 is calculated as 0.8093. According to the fixed weights of the utility layer and the support layer, the final score of the system 4 is calculated as 0.79. According to the gradation principle of the recognition performance of the speech recognition system, the level of the recognition performance of the to-be-evaluated speech recognition system is determined as level 4.
In an embodiment, an evaluation device of the ATC speech recognition system adopts a Core i7-12700 processor, and a memory adopts a 980 PRO IT solid state disk of Samsung, thus making at least one processor can execute any one steps of the evaluation method.
The above is merely the embodiment of the disclosure, and it is not used to limit the disclosure. Any modification, equivalent substitution and improvement made within a spirit and principle of the disclosure should be included in a scope of protection of the disclosure.
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2022116878133 | Dec 2022 | CN | national |