ALPHA BUILD 1.2.12.0 is now available!

[aleex 551]

ALPHA BUILD 1.2.12.0 is now available!

Welcome to the 1.2.12.0 version of the Microsoft Flight Simulator Alpha!

Hello everybody,

Today’s update is a small Quality of Life update to address some important issues from Alpha 1.2.10.0.Thank you for your feedback!

Bug Fixes and QoL Improvements

➡️ Azure TTS – This build includes an improved method of generating speech for radio communications.  The Azure Custom Voice method uses cloud computing and sophisticated real-time models to better simulate real speech. This is a feature that we are exploring for future application, but the audio team needs actual usage data on it in order to determine its viability.  Please feel free to let us know what you think.

➡️  Fixed Icing issue in Airbus A320 Neo – Instruments will no longer fail, reducing airspeed to zero when encountering icing

➡️ SDK updates – SDK updates and fixes for 3rd party partner developers

Recommended Installation Guide

If you have already downloaded Alpha 1.2.10.0 and had no major installation issues, please check for updates in the Microsoft Store and update your build to 1.2.12.0. If you are on a version prior to 1.2.10.0, we recommend you uninstall and reinstall the Alpha. For uninstall/reinstall guidelines and troubleshooting, check out the News & Announcement section on the Alpha Forums.

 

🛑 Known Issues: General 🛑

⦁ Some jetways are misplaced at airports
⦁ Black stripes can be visible on the side of different world tiles
⦁ Trees sometimes overlap with buildings
⦁ There are missing buildings in Chicago-O’Hare airport
⦁ There are missing buildings in Frankfurt am Main Airport
⦁ FPS tends to drop after the end of a loading sequence
⦁ FPS tends to drops during intro cutscenes
⦁ There are possible FPS drops when moving the camera around the plane
⦁ Objectives can fail to show any inputs if they were previously cleared by the user under Controls
⦁ Panels previously undocked from the toolbar can appear enable on any Activity
⦁ There are issues with the TTS voice on the Take-off Flight Training when using the Female Voice
⦁ The TTS voice during the Take Off Flight Training audio and subtitles are mismatched
⦁ We still display some debug subtitle-text with TTS audio on the Landing Flight Training
⦁ Planes can teleport 900 – 5000 FT above when returning to freeflight from any Landing Challenge
⦁ The ”Apply the Brakes” objective fails to get completed after the player applies the brakes during that Landing Tutorial
⦁ Objectives can break using the despawn /respawn at the start of the Take Off Flight Training
⦁ The TBM930 engine shuts down after a teleport
⦁ Intermittent weather bug that can sometimes create unrealistic gusting winds, more likely to hit this when the user changes settings mid-session.
⦁ HUEN main buildings are not spawning
⦁ Autopilot can become inoperable when switching between Vertical Speed and Altitude in All Aircrafts.
⦁ Switching instructor models mid flight (in tutorials) will not switch the instructor voices.
⦁ If you are upgrading from a version older than 1.2.5.0 you will need to fully uninstall before installing this update
⦁ There are potential installation and update issues if the install path contains ‘Extended Unicode characters.’ For now we recommend installation paths containing standard Roman alphabet letters and numbers only.
⦁ Signing out from Xbox Live during a gameplay session can cause issues signing back in to that gameplay session.

 

-Microsoft Flight Simulator Team-

https://www.flightsimulator.com/

 

Those guys are fast!

Edited April 17, 2020 by aleex

[Tuskin38 5,931]

There are some examples of how the ATC voices might sound here

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/#features

[loubar 62]

I'm surprised at how fast 1.2.12.0 was released!
I wonder if we'll see build 1.3.0.0 sooner?

[aleex 551]

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

There are some examples of how the ATC voices might sound here

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/#features

Sounds good honestly 

[leonbr 64]

Yeah! Sounds very good! It looks like something previously recorded.

And besides English, they have German, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese-Brazil (my native language).

It looks very promising.

 

[Tuskin38 5,931]

I wonder if they could use the same tech to simulate accents.

[Casualcas 830]

Shouldn't be difficult to use the different language cadence with the same vowel pronunciation. For example, in  tagalog a very strong Spanish history use short vowels , ie: instead of Beets, bits or feet, fit, or instead of Sheets, .....

[Boomer 1,619]

I have no access to this so why would I care?

[pracines 823]

1 hour ago, Boomer said:

I have no access to this so why would I care?

Eventually, MSFS will likely be released. 🤩

But I do understand the wait is painful...that is a sign of great anticipation, and that is a good thing, not always fun, but it shows you do care...thanks for caring. 👍

[Dominique_K 9,914]

Isn't this  deliciously mysterious ?  What application ?  in FS20  ?

"This is a feature that we are exploring for future application, "

Edited April 18, 2020 by Dominique_K

[MaVe64 372]

8 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I wonder if they could use the same tech to simulate accents.

I posted the idea for accents on the Azure TTS feedback page.

Vote for it! Maybe we can make it happen! The more votes the better.

 https://cognitive.uservoice.com/forums/912208-speech-service/suggestions/40203607-possibility-to-talk-english-but-in-the-different

Have another idea for neural TTS? https://cognitive.uservoice.com/forums/912208-speech-service

Edited April 18, 2020 by MaVe64

[Tuskin38 5,931]

6 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Isn't this  deliciously mysterious ?  What application ?  in FS20  ?

"This is a feature that we are exploring for future application, "

I think They just mean in the sim in general.

Edited April 18, 2020 by Tuskin38

[Mengy 814]

11 hours ago, Boomer said:

I have no access to this so why would I care?

 

I agree, HOWEVER I do enjoy knowing what is going on behind the alpha wall scene despite me not getting invited into it.  The transparency is very much appreciated.

At some point by the end of this year we will all be able to fly in the new sim.  Some of us just aren't as lucky as others are.

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

If you do not care then feel free not to check out the patch notes, or even the development updates or whatever until the simulator is out. Nobody is forcing you to. The patch notes give those who are not part of the Alpha a good insight into some interesting features and how the development is progressing, and I hope Asobo will continue to make them public.