ATC now has UK accents

[Nate1 163]

Thrilled to take off from Barton to Dublin and discover that both my accent and ATC have English accents! Something I'd been hoping for from the outset.

Now going to try some other parts of the world to see what happens. Will ignore the fact that the voice is that of an 80 year old chain smoker.

[Nate1 163]

Actually my thread title may be inaccurate - I've only heard southern English accents so far...

[ricka47 611]

This is certainly news to me - I have to check this out!

[6297J 692]

Just finished flying around South East England and only heard US accents. 

Edited September 25, 2021 by 6297J

[ricka47 611]

Nope - I didn't hear any new accents either.

[Nate1 163]

Looks like the azure server was/is down locally - hence I must have fallen back to default (which usually results in silence for me).

[Nate1 163]

Had a pop-up warning that azure was unavailable. Think I'm going to stick with this setting if it continues to work

[6297J 692]

Just checked again from Stanstead. Non-descript mid west US as usual unfortunately. 

[Nate1 163]

A shame - thought there'd been some wonderful update to azure to acknowledge that not all of us are Americans....

Just tried Cape Town and got the English accents again. Will try starting with azure set to "off" to see if that makes the UK accent stick - changing it mid-session has never worked for me.

[Ricardo41 5,949]

The fact that you basically hear the same vaguely Midwestern accent no matter where you fly is a huge immersion killer. 

I'm amazed that the mod community isn't on that already. Is it really that hard to have a few voice packs that kind of sort of represent various geographical regions? Dunno, maybe it is that hard. 

[Nate1 163]

55 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

The fact that you basically hear the same vaguely Midwestern accent no matter where you fly is a huge immersion killer. 

I'm amazed that the mod community isn't on that already. Is it really that hard to have a few voice packs that kind of sort of represent various geographical regions? Dunno, maybe it is that hard. 

Quite so - it absolutely infuriates me. People talk about the lack of trains being an immersion killer but this is really number one for me.

Microsoft probably don't care as this doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in Seattle - and Asobo in Bordeaux probably don't really distinguish between different english accents.

I think it sounds a bit silly when I'm flying in Sussex...

 

[Bobsk8 12,682]

I use PF3 for atc, over 100 controller voices many with accents depending on where you are flying.

[martinboehme 492]

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

I'm amazed that the mod community isn't on that already. Is it really that hard to have a few voice packs that kind of sort of represent various geographical regions? Dunno, maybe it is that hard. 

As I understand it, the controller voices unfortunately can't be modded because the speech synthesis happens on an Azure server.

[Ricardo41 5,949]

I've watched many tutorial videos about PF3, but the ugly interface and the robotic voices, sorry, hard pass. 

[LouP 116]

Too bad they can't direct traffic.  Right traffic when it seems it should be left and vice versa.  Let's not even get into a complete ignorance of the wind direction.  And I was told an airport was closed because of weather just the other day, so I'm in the middle of setting up an IFR approach and look to see the airport right there under clear skies.  Really?!

LouP