NPR

The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder

WASHINGTON — What began as an inquiry into a mysterious sound in the background of an airplane cockpit voice recording escalated into an unexpected challenge for the nation's top safety investigators.
Jalopnik

Crashed UPS Plane's Flight Crew's Final Words Extracted From A PDF And Made Public

The National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the UPS cargo plane crash shortly after takeoff last year in Louisville, Kentucky. During a recent hearing, the National ...
Nature

A spectrogram and local feature-assisted convolutional neural network for Amharic speech emotion identification

We are providing an unedited version of this manuscript to give early access to its findings. Before final publication, the manuscript will undergo further editing. Please note there may be errors ...
Globalair

Cockpit voice recordings of UPS cargo crash reconstructed using NTSB files

The NTSB temporarily disabled its publicly available accident file system after discovering that AI and image processing technique could use the audio spectrum images included in the files to ...
IEEE

CleanMel: Mel-Spectrogram Enhancement for Improving Both Speech Quality and ASR

Abstract: In this work, we propose CleanMel, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance ...
News 8000

A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of a UPS plane as it crashed. The NTSB now wants it taken down

Washington (CNN) — New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public ...
IEEE

Diffusion Model-Based Data Augmentation with Mel Spectrogram for Automatic Modulation Recognition in Underwater Acoustic Communication

Abstract: Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) in underwater acoustic (UWA) communications is limited by scarce training data and channel impairments such as multipath propagation, Doppler shifts, ...
Engadget

People used AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has pulled its docket system offline after people used information uploaded to it to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash with AI. As ...
Simple Flying

NTSB Halts Public Investigation Access After AI Recreates Cockpit Audio From Fatal UPS Crash

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...
Crypto Briefing

NTSB suspends public access to crash database after AI users recreate cockpit audio from spectrograms

The National Transportation Safety Board pulled the plug on its entire public docket system on May 21 after discovering that people on the internet had used AI to reconstruct cockpit voice recorder ...
Mashable

Travel authority pulls public records used to create AI audio of deceased pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is pausing the release of previously public information related to its investigations, after individuals used AI to recreate the last words of deceased ...
theregister

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

The US National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane crashes, has a policy of not releasing cockpit audio recordings. Nonetheless, earlier this week, the NTSB released a ...