An experiment was conducted to assess the potential improvement in operator performance when data entry is performed by voice input over keyboard input. In a workload condition simulating manual/visual time sharing of two tasks (tracking and radio channel changing) performance on both tasks are significantly improved when operators switched to voice input for the data entry task. Results are discussed in light of the potential of voice recognition systems for the future fighter cockpit.
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