Growing a bit tired of the default FSX ATC voices. Is there any way to add more without resorting to RadarContact/VoxATC etc?

yeah its called vatsim :(

I remember Just Flight's Traffic 2005 (for FS9 obviously) added 4 additional voices to the existing voices.

Growing a bit tired of the default FSX ATC voices. Is there any way to add more without resorting to RadarContact/VoxATC etc?

I believe theoretically you can using the FS9 version of FS Edit Voicepack, (I believe the result is compatible with FSX) but it's a major undertaking, literally recording thousands of words and phrases. To date I haven't heard of it actually being done.

Growing a bit tired of the default FSX ATC voices. Is there any way to add more without resorting to RadarContact/VoxATC etc?

Proflight Emulator Deluxe (PFE) and FDC Live Cockpit (FDC). Not free but well worth the $/

Thanks, I'll check them out...

Growing a bit tired of the default FSX ATC voices. Is there any way to add more without resorting to RadarContact/VoxATC etc?

As tf51D suggested above, it can be done using the Microsoft ATC Voicepack, which is available from this link:http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/l...imulator-9-sdk/It should not to be confused with Editvoicepack which is a different utility (freeware) that allows you to speed up the MS ATC speech among other things. Technically all you need is a microphone, and a sound editor (even the free one that ships with any version of Windows will do)........ But then, good luck reading the thousands of words required for creating the voice pack :-))Gerald R.

As tf51D suggested above, it can be done using the Microsoft ATC Voicepack, which is available from this link:http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/l...imulator-9-sdk/It should not to be confused with Editvoicepack which is a different utility (freeware) that allows you to speed up the MS ATC speech among other things. Technically all you need is a microphone, and a sound editor (even the free one that ships with any version of Windows will do)........ But then, good luck reading the thousands of words required for creating the voice pack :-))Gerald R.

What are the odds that we can get some of the talented voices here to chip in and create the required voices.I'm speaking about replacing all the current FSX voices with new and improved ones.I'm in. I just need more info on how to do it.

300,000 individual wave files later you will be done. Then you need to edit the files and enter markers in the proper places. Then you can pack 'em up into the voice set. Now, years later you have one set, now you can start a second set for another part of the world! If it was easier/less time consuming I am sure someone would have done so already, at least for FS9!

300,000 individual wave files later you will be done. Then you need to edit the files and enter markers in the proper places. Then you can pack 'em up into the voice set. Now, years later you have one set, now you can start a second set for another part of the world! If it was easier/less time consuming I am sure someone would have done so already, at least for FS9!

300K wave files. CONO MEN! :( Jim, I can see clearly now. Thanks.

300K wave files. CONO MEN! :( Jim, I can see clearly now. Thanks.

I think it can be done faster all it takes is of course a huge amount of members. if you have 500 people working or something like that it will get done. lol biggest issue sadly is finding everyone to do it with. and of course managing and organizing everything. its really sad it would have been really nice if we had gotten new atc voices at the time fsx was in development they could have at least built some kind of software to develop it faster.

300K wave files. CONO MEN! :( Jim, I can see clearly now. Thanks.

Every few years someone raises this question. The biggest issue to overcome would be the editing software for placing the keyed markers in the individual .wav files. There is no "freeware" editor and the one MS/ACES used is very, very expensive.I always point folks this this article published years ago by MS/ACES in answer to this question. It's very interesting (and somewhat depressing!) to read..Assembled Voices -or- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/esp/cc835019.aspx

This is the kind of challenge that makes Flight Simulator a fun product to work on. We were fortunate to find talent already existing on the team who could do the job. So next time you use ATC in Flight Simulator, tip your hat to the folks whose voice you hear and repeat after me a thousand times, "Tot, is cleared to tot airport tot..."

Several years ago, I posted this:

I've done the research and the math. Developing such a product would cost the developer a ton of money up front, especially given that (1) studio time isn't cheap, (2) voice talent would be expensive and difficult to hire, (3) finding a studio to contract the ~65,000 seperate voice recordings for each of the talents would be difficult to coordinate, and extremely expensive, and (4) developing the software .dll to manage the regional voice assignments would take a long time and be very expensive...Recovering the development costs would be an improbable outcome, given the lack of market penetration any independent company could realize. Furthermore, developing any addon for an officially depecrated product (FS9) would be an extremely foolish risk. Even though FSX's system is the same as FS9, there's no guarantee that FSvNext will be compatible.

Well, we all know by now that FSX is also officially depecrated, and there won't be any "FSvNext," making the proposition even more unlikely!

I think it can be done faster all it takes is of course a huge amount of members. if you have 500 people working or something like that it will get done. lol biggest issue sadly is finding everyone to do it with. and of course managing and organizing everything. its really sad it would have been really nice if we had gotten new atc voices at the time fsx was in development they could have at least built some kind of software to develop it faster.

That's the thing! you can't have more than 1 person per voice do it, or else, you'll have different dialects. One person per voice set.

I'm in. All we need is 499 more members and the "burning desire" to succeed. :(

Or you could buy PFE as has already been stated which already has something like 59 different peoples voices included already if you purchase the voice pack expansion too.