This seems like a very nice freeware addon by Oliver Strauss. Its listed as for FS2004, has anyone tried to get this to work properly in FSX?

I'd like to bump this for help.

 

Far as I can tell this is an external program that runs in the background separate from FSX but I am not sure since I appear to be too dense to understand the readme instructions. I get the instructions I just don't get the procedures on how this program is suppose to work.

 

Is anyone willing to try this and help me figure out how to its suppose to work.

 

If you go to the readme's web site, there is a newer 2.0 alpha version btw.

Figure I'd share what I've learned since there may be a slight chance someone cares.

 

2.0 is buggy and refuses to start or not crash on my system.

 

1.3 works very well but I've had to create for myself all the voice overs using an online TTS. Also I'm not using the voice command prompting because it is glitchy and does not recognize what I say half the time. So I'm just using to keys/buttons.

 

Once setup, it is very cool; no more reading the checklist, just listen the voice of the first officer and the text popup on screen. Press a button to advance through different flight checklist stages, press a 2nd button to cycle through each checklist item within that subchecklist.

Hi VeryBumpy,

 

Thanks for sharing your experiences with this. I have been looking for something like this for a while now, and was actually surprised that FSX developers haven't jumped on this type of thing. 

 

I did a search and found the free DSpeech app by Dimio perfect for converting phrases to audio files. I am preparing a test checklist for the VRS Superbug, and if successful, I may adopt this with other aircraft and in other simulations (X-Plane, DCS etc.) as well. I haven't really got it working yet (still need to work out how this thing works exactly), but I hope to get these soon. I am still trying to get a grip on how the checklists.txt file works, how terms should correspond to the folder names for the various checklist sections and so forth.

 

Thanks for the tips so far!