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  <Title>Advanced Human-Computer Interface and Voice Processing Applications in Space</Title>
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6. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Developing advanced human-computer interaction for space operations is a challenging task that requires the coordinated effort of various fields of study. A potential avenue for solution is to consider voice technology and automatic speech recognition techniques as means of optimizing astronaut performance and helping reduce their workload in space.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The voice experiment performed on the Space Shuttle mission STS-41 in 1990 has demonstrated that an advanced voice system for interacting with on-board subsystems may prove both useful and cost effective.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Yet, as Dr. Vladimir Solov'yev, a veteran of two russian space missions totalling more than 12 months points out, the human component of the human-machine system remains a key: Today, we have been accustomed to spacecraft launches and space flights are now perceived as something to be taken for granted. The experience of our cosmonauts is that there is no such thing as an easy space flight. A cosmonaut or ground control specialist is still a human being with its own set of capacities and problems. It means that it is a human being who takes a machine \[up in space.., and\] a human, surrounded by a the hostile environment of space, who makes decisions and interacts with a machine to attain a desired result\[11\].</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Any future HCI proposal will only achieve its purpose flit is designed with these limits in mind.</Paragraph>
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