Opinions on the 747 FS2Crew addon

[Ephedrin 418]

Hello everyone,

to those of you who have the FS2Crew addon for the 747 I have some short questions. 

- I think my accent when I am talking english is not TOO german 😄 my "th" is not an "s" and so on.. how well does the language module understand the commands? I refer to Froogle (I think it was him) who - being american -  had problems with his accent to make the program react in the Maddog..

- They say "It's so realistic in fact that FS2Crew has won the supreme accolade of receiving official PMDG status as the only 'Official' flight crew expansion pack for the PMDG 747!"  Can you as customers agree with it? 

-I have zero experience in usage of FS2Crew addons, I want to control it via the voice input, but using TrackIR mounted on a (don't laugh) Alice band a head set has become a no-go for me, at least at the moment. I have a 5.1 setup in my simulator room and I would like to keep it that way for now.  So: one possibility would be the microphone of the PS4 Controller attached to my collar. Do you think this will work? 

 

I'm looking forward to read about your experiences.

 

Thanks,

Marc

Edited May 5, 2018 by Ephedrin

[MarkW 1,491]

Personally I love it. Really adds to the sim especially in highly automated aircraft.  Going through the checklists like a real crew is great and you can still do most of the things you want to in terms of operation of the aircraft.  Sorry i cannot comment on language interpretation as a native English speaker with a neutral accent but you can train the voice recognition system to your voice. It's a miminor issue. 

[PLund 15]

I got FS2Crew for the 737, 747 and MD80 (previous 777 and Q400).

With the 737 and 747 i got no problem, but I experience the same problem as Froogle with the MD80 that it won´t accept my voice commands and often has to use "set and checked".

But all to all I enjoy FS2Crew and find it a huge help when flying.

[Ephedrin 418]

thanks guys, I think I will try my best with it and go and get it for the 747 😄

[ZKOKQ 984]

19 hours ago, Ephedrin said:

refer to Froogle (I think it was him) who - being american

I could have sworn Froogle is a Brit ?

 

Julian Evans

[mikealpha 266]

No problems at all with my "German" english. Additionally should any problems with certain words occur, you can train these in the Speech engine.

I would certainly recommend it, it really adds to the immersion. 

 

[Ephedrin 418]

44 minutes ago, ZKOKQ said:

I could have sworn Froogle is a Brit ?

Oh? okay, then it makes ab bit more sense 😄 

It's really nice, I'm just on my first flight with FS2C from Frankfurt to Hongkong. The only thing that really bothers me is that I had to set my whole Computer to US English and that they don't tell you about this issue neither on their product site nor in the FAQs. -.- I can deal with it, but it's annoying.

[ailchim 206]

I don't have the 747 but if the FS2Crew manual DOESN'T tell you to select US English, then it's the only one.  Here's the relevant bit from the 737 Reboot manual:

 

[Ephedrin 418]

the manual does... but it should be said on the website when you have to decide if you buy it or not.. It's not the fine way to ignore such a major impact on a system. Not everyone wants to deal with his system set to english. Eventually mentioning it in the manual is like "oh yeah by the way, set your system to a foreign language or you won't be able to use what you have purchased... but anyway you have already paid, so what..." 

[scandinavian13 5,192]

14 hours ago, Ephedrin said:

the manual does... but it should be said on the website when you have to decide if you buy it or not.. It's not the fine way to ignore such a major impact on a system. Not everyone wants to deal with his system set to english. Eventually mentioning it in the manual is like "oh yeah by the way, set your system to a foreign language or you won't be able to use what you have purchased... but anyway you have already paid, so what..." 

Gonna press back a bit on you here...

Set your system's speech recognition to a foreign language...not the entire system. It's not like you have to set the entire OS to English, such that you have the stupid American date format, english titles, and so on. To be honest, with the exception of FS2Crew, I don't even use speech recognition, and I doubt that my situation is unique, so I really don't see the impact apart from having something to complain about.

On 5/6/2018 at 8:01 AM, ZKOKQ said:

I could have sworn Froogle is a Brit ?

Brit living in America, yeah.

[Ephedrin 418]

1 hour ago, scandinavian13 said:

Gonna press back a bit on you here...

Set your system's speech recognition to a foreign language...not the entire system. It's not like you have to set the entire OS to English, such that you have the stupid American date format, english titles, and so on. To be honest, with the exception of FS2Crew, I don't even use speech recognition, and I doubt that my situation is unique, so I really don't see the impact apart from having something to complain about.

Brit living in America, yeah.

That's strange. I set the speech recognition to English (US) as described in their manual. Then, when I wanted to train my speech profile, it showed me an error and told me in pretty precise words that I had to use the english user interface to be able to train my recognition to my (english) voice. Nevertheless, while i DO have a "recycle bin" now instead of a "Papierkorb", it still shows the 07.05.2018 instead of 2018-05-07. I guess I will have to play around a bit with that and try it out if it will still understand me. Maybe it was just needed to show me the english text to read out.

FS2C itself is simply a blast... an amazing experience on the Jumbo 😄

Edited May 7, 2018 by Ephedrin

[30K 72]

On 5/7/2018 at 4:27 PM, Ephedrin said:

That's strange. I set the speech recognition to English (US) as described in their manual. Then, when I wanted to train my speech profile, it showed me an error and told me in pretty precise words that I had to use the english user interface to be able to train my recognition to my (english) voice. Nevertheless, while i DO have a "recycle bin" now instead of a "Papierkorb", it still shows the 07.05.2018 instead of 2018-05-07. I guess I will have to play around a bit with that and try it out if it will still understand me. Maybe it was just needed to show me the english text to read out.

To fix the language (recycle bin):

windows settings -> Region&language -> Windows display language.

To fix the date:

windows settings -> Region&language -> Date & time ganz unten 😉 (This can change when switching languages and stuff)

To add a language:

click plus and select just about everything but not "set as display language".

 

Speech req:

Systemsteuerung -> erleichterte Bedienung ->  Spracherkennung -> Computer trainieren.

Wenn du da dann immer noch einen Fehler bekommst sag mal warum er sauer ist.

 

 

BTW. When you sign in with your microsoft acc. the speech profile is linked to the account and will be restored after a clean OS install. 

[windshearDK 52]

I use the button edition, its a must, I don't have an accent really, but I can mumble a bit... Just want the responses I don't need to say the things. I get it that when it works its great, but I have my doubts so programs with voice recognition, just look at Siri how many times she doesn't get it