MSFS 2020 Turning Off CO-PILOT VOICE Work Around

[flyblueskies 143]

I recently found this work around at the MSFS 2020 forums.

After making this small modification, you can use Multi Crew Experience to speak with native ATC and no longer hear the CO-Pilot repeat what you've just said.

Basically, the steps to add this modification are:

1. Go to your FS-BASE folder.

2. Locate the Speakers.locspk file.

3. Make a backup copy of this file in case you need/want to remove this modification

4. Open the Speakers.locspk file with Notepad or Notepad++. Find the lines:

        "Name": "COPILOT",
        "Gender": "NotSet",
        "Age": "NotSet",
        "OutputBus": "VO_COPILOT",

Remove them from the file.

5. Save the updated file.

Now, when you run native ATC, you will hear ATC but no longer hear the CO-Pilot voice interacting with ATC.

The link below contains a video walking you through steps 1-5 above.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/option-to-disable-pilot-voice/309139/21?u=shakerkitty10

 

[FS++ 712]

3 hours ago, flyblueskies said:

I recently found this work around at the MSFS 2020 forums.

After making this small modification, you can use Multi Crew Experience to speak with native ATC and no longer hear the CO-Pilot repeat what you've just said.

Basically, the steps to add this modification are:

1. Go to your FS-BASE folder.

2. Locate the Speakers.locspk file.

3. Make a backup copy of this file in case you need/want to remove this modification

4. Open the Speakers.locspk file with Notepad or Notepad++. Find the lines:

        "Name": "COPILOT",
        "Gender": "NotSet",
        "Age": "NotSet",
        "OutputBus": "VO_COPILOT",

Remove them from the file.

5. Save the updated file.

Now, when you run native ATC, you will hear ATC but no longer hear the CO-Pilot voice interacting with ATC.

The link below contains a video walking you through steps 1-5 above.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/option-to-disable-pilot-voice/309139/21?u=shakerkitty10

 

Love your determination.

Awesome find.

Native ATC is very good with VFR. Do not forget we also support PF3 Atc which is better at IFR flights, and the MCE FO voice will also handle ATC when you hand him/her the comms..

 

[flyblueskies 143]

1 hour ago, FS++ said:

Awesome find

Thank you...I might add that in the video, CptTurner talks about using COMM2 instead of COMM1. So far, I've been successful using COMM1.

I do have PF3 ATC and do use it..It would be great if we could somehow use the Azure voice servers with PF3.

[FredFF 0]

Fantastic tip, been looking for this for quite some time. Thanks a lot !

[flyblueskies 143]

I've noticed with SU9 beta, they made a change to the Speakers.locspk file.

The above method no longer works by removing the COPILOT section.

Instead, remove the PILOT section and save:

"Name": "PILOT",
"Gender": "NotSet",
"Age": "NotSet",
"OutputBus": "VO_PILOT",

You can leave the COPILOT section the same (unmodified). That way, if you decide at some point to use the AI COPILOT option, it still works.

You have the best of both worlds now...

 

[gordong 4]

Great find, I stopped using mce because of this. Now up and running again.