The ATCA Bulletin 2003
May
STR-SpeechTech Ltd. (STR) of Victoria, Canada announces Site Acceptance Testing has been successfully completed in London, Ontario for NAV CANADA's Digital PATWAS (Pilot's Automatic Telephone Weather Answering Service). PATWAS is an advanced communications system that provides current weather information to pilots for use in flight planning. Beginning as a prototype system in Ontario in 1999, the new system is based on STR's broadcast-quality text-to-speech (TTS) product, called StarCaster. The London deployment occurred on May 12, 2003, and is the first Digital PATWAS system to be installed at one of NAV CANADA's nine new Flight Information Centres (FIC) across Canada. New features of the Digital PATWAS include: text-to-speech in both French and English, a web browser-based graphical user interface for system support at FICs, processing of pilot requests for information over the telephone using speech recognition or the touch-tone keypad, ability to process new types of aviation weather information (i.e., SIGMET, AIRMET, PIREP), and rapid delivery of requested information using broadcast-quality voice or a fax-back option. The Digital PATWAS system will support up to 15 voice lines and 4 fax lines simultaneously, each providing different information in response to pilots' requests. The system provides pilots with access to essential flight planning information, while allowing NAV CANADA Flight Service Specialists to focus more completely on value-added interpretative and consultative briefings.
July
STR-SpeechTech Ltd. (STR) of Victoria, Canada has announced Site Acceptance Testing was successfully completed at the Quebec Flight Information Centre (FIC) for NAV CANADA's Digital PATWAS (Pilot's Automatic Telephone Weather Answering Service). PATWAS is an advanced communications system that povides current weather information to pilots for use in flight planning, and is based on STR's broadcast-quality text-to-speech (TTS) product, called StarCaster. The Digital PATWAS system will support up to 15 voice lines and 4 fax lines simultaneously, each providing different information in response to pilots' requests.
August
STR-SpeechTech Ltd. (STR) of Victoria, Canada has announced Site Acceptance Testing was successfully completed at the Kamloops Flight Information Centre (FIC) for NAV CANADA's Digital PATWAS (Pilot's Automatic Telephone Weather Answering Service). PATWAS provides current weather information to pilots for use in flight planning, and is based on STR's broadcast-quality text-to-speech (TTS) product StarCasterâ. The Kamloops system became operational on July 14, 2003, and is the third Digital PATWAS system to be installed at NAV CANADA's nine new FICs across Canada. New features of the Digital PATWAS include: text-to-speech in both French and English, a web browser-based graphical user interface for system support at FICs, processing of pilot requests for information over the telephone using speech recognition or the touch-tone keypad, ability to process new types of aviation weather information, and rapid delivery of requested information using broadcast-quality voice or a fax-back option. The Digital PATWAS system will support up to 15 voice lines and 4 fax lines simultaneously, each providing different information in response to pilots' requests.
October
STR-SpeechTech Ltd. (STR) of Victoria, Canada has announced the launch of M-ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information System), a low-cost mobile hardware and software package used to manually record and transmit weather and airport information to arriving and departing airplanes. M-ATIS will be showcased at the 48th ATCA Convention in October at STR's Booth 922, along with the recently released StarCaster® ATIS System, a low-cost, fully automated ATIS system that provides pilots with up-to-the-minute automated broadcasts of critical flight information, 24x7. The StarCaster® ATIS System uses STR's previously proven StarCaster Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology that has become the TTS industry benchmark for superior quality voice output. The ATIS system employs the StarCaster TTS technology to provide the ultimate clear, natural voice, essential for critical message broadcasting. The system can be customized for a particular region with local accents and languages. A demo is available online at www.speechtech.com.
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