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Session 3549

Communication Disorders from an Avionics Perspective

John D. Cremin

Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis University

Abstract The field of Communication Disorders has much to offer the field of Avionics in areas dealing with cockpit design and user interface. Avionics and Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) have much to offer Communication Disorders in areas dealing with electronic communications, navigation and control.

This paper describes: Areas of communication disorders from the avionics perspective of autopilots, speech recognition and synthesis, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies,

Areas of avionics from the communication disorders perspective of hearing and speech disorders and augmentative and alternative communication4,

Ideas for Avionics/EET capstone design, special topics, and lab experiments are presented. Introduction Although the fields of Communication Disorders and Avionics might seem disparate, they in fact have a common interest, viz. communication (human and electronic). Communication Disorders and Avionics view communication from common and disparate perspectives. Communication Disorders focuses on the nature of human disorders of speech and hearing and utilizes electronics for analysis, testing and prosthesis. Testing for speech and hearing impairment utilize electronic devices such as audiometers and microphones coupled with computers. As prosthesis, hearing aids and electronic communicators substitute for damaged auditory and speech organs. Avionics focuses on the use of electronics to provide human speech and data transmission and reception, while utilizing the science of speech for electronic system development. An example of the use of speech science to improve electronic communications is the Linear Predictive Coder6 (LPC). An LPC produces a time varying model of the vocal tract excitation and transfer function from the speech waveform. An LPC speech synthesizer uses the mathematical model of the vocal tract to provide more natural sounding speech in a limited electronic bandwidth at 1.2 to 2.4 Kilobits/second

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Cremin, J. (2002, June), Communication Disorders From An Avionics Perspective Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10995