May 25, 201115 yr I hope that the long wait to release or even complete Radar Contact v5 is caused by JD working with MS on Flight.It's not.
May 25, 201115 yr Thanks Jim for the in-depth response! I knew you know! lol :) Jacek G. Ryzen 5800X3D | Asus RTX4090 OC | 64gb DDR4 3600 | Asus ROG Strix X570E | HX1000w | Fractal Design Torrent RGB | AOC AGON 49' Curved QHD |
May 26, 201115 yr Moderator Jim seems to be implying that Edit Voice Package improves the quality of 'voice', where as far as I am aware it does not.Speeding up the playback x2 really does help. At the very least, it sounds more natural... :( Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 27, 201115 yr The MS bloggers during FSX development said they considered AI and ATC to be "legacy" features that would not be further improved, and that multiplayer would take their places. They had no plans to update either (much) for FSX or FSNext. Whether this is true or not for Flight I do not know, but their continued emphasis on the online experience certainly doesn't bode well... Tom Gibson CalClassic Propliner Page
May 27, 201115 yr Speeding up the playback x2 really does help. At the very least, it sounds more natural... :(Oh, I really did not know that. Apologies. I had visions it might sound like Stephen Hawking on mushrooms. Tristan Living in the beautiful Chilterns. FS System: intel e8600 core 2 duo cpu, asus p5q deluxe motherboard, 4gb ddr2 1066 corsair memory thermaltake 750w power supply, palit 9800gtx+ 512mb graphics card, 750gb sata2 hard drive, 500gb sata2 hard drive, coolermaster v8 cpu cooler, antec 900 case, xp pro 32 bit, creative xfi titanium sound card, 22x dvd/rw. Still sticking and rocking with FS9. "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
May 27, 201115 yr I find it funny (sarcastic) that in the 'missions' ATC sounds more like real-life phraseology. American 1388 would be read as American Thirteen Eighty Eight in the U.S. Before you start with the flames, I know that the standard is to sound out the ATC callsign by number.
May 28, 201115 yr Surely you guys aren't complaining about the FSX ATC calling out "American One Three Eight Eight" instead of "American Thirteen Eighty-Eight"? :( Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
May 28, 201115 yr I surely am. There has been room for this since fs9, all you have to do is record a couple more .wav files, and right conditional code for ATC. The entire airspace system operates on rules. Those rules set a reliable way to model ATC in a game (if x, then y). This is not an unreasonable request seeing as when I fly in real life, there's only a couple of differences from there to fs i.e. no STAR/SID/V-/J- routing that is spoken in fs. So to reiterate, yes, I am "complaining" about this issue.
May 28, 201115 yr Moderator Oh, I really did not know that. Apologies. I had visions it might sound like Stephen Hawking on mushrooms.Well, the one thing that EVP can't do is fix the (mis)pronunciation of certain names and keywords, such as the three different ways the voice actors pronounced "NASA" (correctly for most, but one naw-sah, and another nay-saw...)Nevermind the weird pronunciation of Icelandic, or Norwegian city and airport names! :( Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
June 5, 201115 yr Well, the one thing that EVP can't do is fix the (mis)pronunciation of certain names and keywords, such as the three different ways the voice actors pronounced "NASA" (correctly for most, but one naw-sah, and another nay-saw...)Nevermind the weird pronunciation of Icelandic, or Norwegian city and airport names! :(Actually maybe it can. If you don't like the way a word sounds, you can replace it by peicing together syllables from other works to make a new version up. It's a little work, but possible. I've made a number of modifications using EditVoicepack (Some of which are available here in the FSX/Sound library and others I plan on releasing) and it really does make a difference to what the default sounds like. Here's a samplehttp://forum.avsim.net/topic/336145-fsx-ifly-737-800-flight-from-kansas-city-to-memphis/ Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
June 8, 201115 yr I'm all for speech synthesis, so long as the radio work is more realistic. Would love to hear the random noise and bleeps and people getting stepped on you hear all the time. Realistic interference would be great but I realize that's a whole 'nuther level of things to consider, and honestly I'd trade that for cloud shadows in a second.Would like once in a while to hear someone accidentally keying their mic and talking about sandwiches, or clouds or whatever ;)Speech synthesis makes it all possible. Recorded voice may sound more realistic but I think the tradeoff is worth it.Overall, though, I want to be able to fly to an uncontrolled airport and hear the local traffic acting realistically. H e l p k e e p A V S I M f l y i n g
June 14, 201115 yr You want better quality ATC?VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge, Boston Virtual ATC, etc. etc...Even if Microsoft upgraded the quality of the AI ATC voice, there's still serious performance shortfalls when it comes to the AI. Try installing just a few airline libraries from World of AI and you get traffic that's sequenced less than a mile apart (sometimes literally flying nose to tail) on approach.IMHO, I believe Microsoft is focusing on other priorities and relying on the online community to provide enjoyable and much more realistic ATC experiences.
