Been reading as much as I can about MCE.

Why do users of this product need a headset, mike, and speech recog?

Thanks,

Mike

Maybe because it's a headset, mike, and speech recog program?

That's why people ask questions. So they can learn. What makes you think anybody wants to know about you.

Hello Maverick,

 

MCE is a voice recognition program, you can control from your flight simulation menus to your aircraft itself. To do this it needs a microphone to get the instructions from you, preferably a headset.

 

At the moment it supports the PMDG md11, 747, NGX, Captain Sim 767,757, C130, default fsx aircraft, some Carenado aircraft and many more.

Plus of course it allows you to talk directly to FSX ATC from any aircraft :smile:

And if that's not enough to wet your apatite, you can talk to your First Officer and get him to do all kinds of stuff for you like press buttons, flip switches, just about anything you ask him. Well almost anything.

I'm wondering, was the original poster's question aimed more at asking why we felt the need to have the voice control features MCE offers in the first place?

 

For me the original driving force was ATC. Interacting with it by pushing a button and hearing "my" voice with an American accent broke immersion for me. Actually "talking on the radio" is yet another tiny step in making the sim feel more real.

 

After that, I found having the MCE copilot quite useful flying jetliners, which after all need a two man crew in real life. If I'm handflying, I can stay focussed on the primary flight controls while verbally ordering the FO to handle periphery things (like radios tuning, landing gear or autobrakes). Alternatively once the autopilot is engaged I can switch to a more "flight management" role ordering the FO to make any changes to heading, speed or altitude. Handy when you're being vectored in to an approach and have to do five things at once.

 

Finally the scripts I've done for the purser are just for fun. Getting her to do the cabin announcements is a nice bit of background noise, and calling her to the cockpit to ask for a cuppa and inquire about the in-flight movie is just pure childish silliness... in a good way.

 

But If I had to give one reason why MCE is now a must-have for me, it would be the ability to talk to ATC and to a slightly lesser extent the ground mechanic and GSX services, as this feels much more natural than pushing keys.

 

Dr V