Problem with PF3 and TTS Voice...

[ggerolamo 108]

Hi to all,

first of all: thanks again for this great piece of software :-)
It brings a lot of variety and immersion to flight sim !
Actually I use p3dv4.2 witch MCE and PF3 - and all works fine as expected.
Until now I was using the internal voices as Copilot...

Yesterday I used an internal Windows TTS voice (ZELDA) !
Almost everything works well, flows, checklists, ATC contact....
...BUT If TTS-voice is replying and confirming an ATC (PF3) command,
The language is very choppy with many breaks between the words and digits !?

Example:
ATC:....fly heading 270 climb to 5000....
TTS-VOICE(Auto Replay): ....roger (Pause) climb (Pause) to (Pause) 5 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause)....

Bevor I buy an 'expensiv' voice from cereproc I want to know if there is a solution to eleminate this stuttering?

Maybe this is not a problem with the (professionel) cereproc voices, but only with 'ZELDA' ?
Is there a special setting in the software (MCE, PF3) to avoid this behavior ?

 

Thanks in advance

ggerolamo

[Dirk98 354]

17 minutes ago, ggerolamo said:

Hi to all,

first of all: thanks again for this great piece of software :-)
It brings a lot of variety and immersion to flight sim !
Actually I use p3dv4.2 witch MCE and PF3 - and all works fine as expected.
Until now I was using the internal voices as Copilot...

Yesterday I used an internal Windows TTS voice (ZELDA) !
Almost everything works well, flows, checklists, ATC contact....
...BUT If TTS-voice is replying and confirming an ATC (PF3) command,
The language is very choppy with many breaks between the words and digits !?

Example:
ATC:....fly heading 270 climb to 5000....
TTS-VOICE(Auto Replay): ....roger (Pause) climb (Pause) to (Pause) 5 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause)....

Bevor I buy an 'expensiv' voice from cereproc I want to know if there is a solution to eleminate this stuttering?

Maybe this is not a problem with the (professionel) cereproc voices, but only with 'ZELDA' ?
Is there a special setting in the software (MCE, PF3) to avoid this behavior ?

 

Thanks in advance

ggerolamo

ggerolamo, my question is not directly related, but I'm curious if you run PF3 on the same machine or on a network PC?

Thanks.

[RALF9636 1,957]

41 minutes ago, ggerolamo said:

Hi to all,

first of all: thanks again for this great piece of software :-)
It brings a lot of variety and immersion to flight sim !
Actually I use p3dv4.2 witch MCE and PF3 - and all works fine as expected.
Until now I was using the internal voices as Copilot...

Yesterday I used an internal Windows TTS voice (ZELDA) !
Almost everything works well, flows, checklists, ATC contact....
...BUT If TTS-voice is replying and confirming an ATC (PF3) command,
The language is very choppy with many breaks between the words and digits !?

Example:
ATC:....fly heading 270 climb to 5000....
TTS-VOICE(Auto Replay): ....roger (Pause) climb (Pause) to (Pause) 5 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause) 0 (Pause)....

Bevor I buy an 'expensiv' voice from cereproc I want to know if there is a solution to eleminate this stuttering?

Maybe this is not a problem with the (professionel) cereproc voices, but only with 'ZELDA' ?
Is there a special setting in the software (MCE, PF3) to avoid this behavior ?

 

Thanks in advance

ggerolamo

 

I have exactly  the same problem with the stock Windows voices. I think it is because of the poor quality of these voices. There are no problems like that with the Cereproc and Ivona voices; I have several of those and all work fine in MCE, also when replying to PF3.

Edited April 3, 2018 by RALF9636

[ggerolamo 108]

1 hour ago, Dirk98 said:

ggerolamo, my question is not directly related, but I'm curious if you run PF3 on the same machine or on a network PC?

 All programs on the same PC - no network !

 

 

[ggerolamo 108]

56 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

I have exactly  the same problem with the stock Windows voices. I think it is because of the poor quality of these voices. There are no problems like that with the Cereproc and Ivona voices; I have several of those and all work fine in MCE, also when replying to PF3.

Thanks for the answer :-)

Does that mean I can easily buy a voice from cereproc  ?

did you gain experience in combination mce + pf3 + tts-voice ?

Any useful tipps ? ;-)

 

Thanks in advance

ggerolamo

[RALF9636 1,957]

8 minutes ago, ggerolamo said:

Thanks for the answer :-)

Does that mean I can easily buy a voice from cereproc  ?

did you gain experience in combination mce + pf3 + tts-voice ?

Any useful tipps ? ;-)

 

Thanks in advance

ggerolamo

MCE / PF3 works great with TTS voices. You can't go wrong with the Cereproc voices - it has to be an english voice of course or you will get funny results ;-).

A useful tip might be this: In MCE you can set the speed of the TTS voice. Experiment with that. Some voices need a different speed setting than others to sound best.

 

[Dirk98 354]

Isn't this Combo cheaper than Cereproc's single ones?

https://harposoftware.com/en/multivoice-packages/64-s2g-en-5-english-voices.html

I hope these 5 voices will work with TTS

Thanks,

Edited April 3, 2018 by Dirk98

[RALF9636 1,957]

I have Ivona Brian and Sally and they work fine with MCE. Unfortunately that pack wasn't available back when I got them :-(.

 

[ggerolamo 108]

32 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

Isn't this Combo cheaper than Cereproc's single ones?

https://harposoftware.com/en/multivoice-packages/64-s2g-en-5-english-voices.html

I hope these 5 voices will work with TTS

Thanks for the Info, but € 169.00 is too expensive to try out a TTS-voice !

..besides, I fell in love with one of the voices from cereproc ;-)))

greetings

ggerolamo 

[ggerolamo 108]

6 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

I have Ivona Brian and Sally and they work fine with MCE. Unfortunately that pack wasn't available back when I got them :-(.

Thanks a lot for the Info !

 I will definitely buy a voice from cereproc and I hope everything works as expected :-)

 

greetings 

ggerolamo

[FS++ 708]

On ‎03‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 1:41 PM, ggerolamo said:

Thanks a lot for the Info !

 I will definitely buy a voice from cereproc and I hope everything works as expected :-)

 

greetings 

ggerolamo

Just a word of caution.

Make sure the voice you buy has 32 bit support.

Some will ship with both 64 Bit and 32 Bit voices (Cereproc comes to mind), others are sold separately.

[ggerolamo 108]

Thanks for the Info :-)

I finally bought a voice from cereproc - and all works fine !! 

It is  really a great new experience: this great program in combination with a tough and noughty TTS-lady 

 

greetings 

ggerolamo

Edited April 5, 2018 by ggerolamo

[FS++ 708]

58 minutes ago, ggerolamo said:

Thanks for the Info :-)

I finally bought a voice from cereproc - and all works fine !! 

It is  really a great new experience: this great program in combination with a tough and noughty TTS-lady 

 

greetings 

ggerolamo

Agree.

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[Dirk98 354]

1 hour ago, FS++ said:

Just a word of caution.

Make sure the voice you buy has 32 bit support.

Some will ship with both 64 Bit and 32 Bit voices (Cereproc comes to mind), others are sold separately.

32 bit?!

VoxATC and A2P insist they should be 64 Bit voices?!

Win10x64 and Win7x64 here.

Please clarify.

Thanks.

[FS++ 708]

37 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

32 bit?!

VoxATC and A2P insist they should be 64 Bit voices?!

Win10x64 and Win7x64 here.

Please clarify.

Thanks.

It's to do with the main app exe "bitness".

A 64 bit process cannot load 32 bit voices and vice-versa.

MCE (mce.exe) is a 32 Bit process, hence detects and loads 32 Bit voices only.

That means you can use much older SAPI 5 voices, as well as new ones.

Pilot2Atc used to be 32 bit and now has switched to 64 Bit because it didn't have enough VAS (as read on their forum).

There is no need for MCE to become 64 Bit. It has plenty of VAS for itself, since it runs as an external process to the sim.

The dlls we use for P3D V4 are 64 bit though. fsInsider64.dll and dlls in <MCE dlls> folder because P3D V4 can only load 64 bit dlls.

The 64 bit voice you would get, could be used with other programs like screen readers. Most of them will ship with their 32 Bit equivalent..