语音识别能让机床人机界面成为现实吗?

Will Voice Recognition Enable a Transformational HMI for Machine Tools?

语音交互使得界面不仅可以控制车间中的任何数控机床,而且可以方便地访问车间内有用的信息。未来的机械加工设备能如此吗?如果数控机床的可以通过设备与工作人员交流,并理解机械人员的命令。或者,如果工作人员能够通过相同的方式,控制操作车间中不同的数控机床(图1)。如果工作人员不仅可以访问机器上的数据,还可以访问和设备使用相关的所有信息,包括操作和维护说明以及当前作业的设置说明,从而根据用户的口头请求提供所需信息,会出现哪些变化。而这就是由iT SpeeX公司引入,将语音识别技术带入机床的人机接口(HMI)系统Athena对用户做出的承诺。

Imagine if the control interface for a CNC machine tool was not a panel full of buttons,but instead a headset addressing a digital assistant able to understand a machinist’s verbal commands.Imagine if that assistant could operate all the different CNC machine tools in the shop,with various controls,in precisely this same way.And imagine if that digital assistant had ready access not only to status data at the machine,but all the information around the machine related to using it effectively,including operation and maintenance instructions as well as setup instructions for the current job,making any of this information available at the user’s verbal request.Those are the promises of a new human-machine interface(HMI)system—called Athena—being introduced by a startup company,iT SpeeX,that brings speech-recognition technology to machine tools.