Thales Selects UFA’s Voice Recognition Products for Airservices Australia Training

WOBURN, MA, September 12, 2008 – UFA, Inc., a global leader in simulation and training products for Air Traffic Control (ATC), announced today that THALES ATM has selected UFA’s ATVoice® Voice Recognition and Response System and ATRadio® Simulated Voice Communications System for its EUROCAT Simulator Upgrade Program for Airservices Australia. ATVoice and ATRadio will be integrated with the EUROCAT-X Simulator to enhance the training capabilities for Airservices Australia. As part of this program, ATVoice and ATRadio will be deployed to Airservices Australia operational facilities in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney and the Training College and System Support Facility in Melbourne.

ATVoice is an advanced voice recognition and response system that allows the trainee to interact with the simulation exercise using clearance phraseology as used in actual operation. This enhances the simulation experience and effectiveness by training the use of standard phraseology – a critical aspect of ATC. ATVoice uses a speaker independent recognition engine to achieve the high recognition performance with rapid speech required for the ATC environment. ATVoice is also able to support non-native speaker of US English through the use of customized voice models. A text to speech engine is used with multiple voice fonts to generate pilot responses to the spoken clearances.

The complementary ATRadio product is a VoIP based simulated radio / telephony product ideal for the training environment due to low cost and flexibility and is seamlessly integrated with ATVoice.
UFA has over twenty years of experience with voice recognition and has successfully installed ATVoice for many customers including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US Military, and International Air Navigation Service Providers.

Headquartered in Woburn, MA, UFA, Inc. is a privately held engineering firm specializing in Air Traffic Management simulation products. UFA’s product line is in use around the world and includes ATCoach®, ATower®, ATView®, ATVoice and ATRadio. UFA maintains an additional office in Gaithersburg, MD. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, ATCSim GmbH, is located in Mainz and Kaufbeuren, Germany.

Contact:
Anja Bellmann
UFA Marketing Department
anja@ufainc.com

Rajiv J. Sood
Senior Vice President
soodr@UFAinc.com

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