A PIlots Life V2 just added Cabin announcements

[Bobsk8 11,872]

 

[mikethe6th 53]

https://secure.simmarket.com/simbitworld-a-pilots-life-chapter-2-pa-expansion-(de_18090).phtml

A couple of the reviews complaining about very robotic voices. 

One thing I'm unsure of, are the announcements the same for each flight or do they have some variety? 

[Bobsk8 11,872]

1 hour ago, mikethe6th said:

https://secure.simmarket.com/simbitworld-a-pilots-life-chapter-2-pa-expansion-(de_18090).phtml

A couple of the reviews complaining about very robotic voices. 

One thing I'm unsure of, are the announcements the same for each flight or do they have some variety? 

I selected American voices, they sound OK. I started with auto selection and I was in Germany on a flight, and the annoucements were in German, so I siwtched to American English. Sounded OK. Cabin announcements are usually pretty similar in  real life.It was 7 Euros, so I took out a home equity loan, and bought it. 😉

Edited August 9 by Bobsk8

[RALF9636 1,645]

The announcements are okay and add to the immersion if you set the volume to 10 % and only here them muffled as part of the ambience. Do not listen to them too closely, in particular the non-english voices partly are kind of ridiculous.

 

 

[Bobsk8 11,872]

5 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

The announcements are okay and add to the immersion if you set the volume to 10 % and only here them muffled as part of the ambience. Do not listen to them too closely, in particular the non-english voices partly are kind of ridiculous.

 

 

I don't understand any of the non English voices anyway, ...

[Bobsk8 11,872]

32 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

The announcements are okay and add to the immersion if you set the volume to 10 % and only here them muffled as part of the ambience. Do not listen to them too closely, in particular the non-english voices partly are kind of ridiculous.

 

 

The developer already stated that many of the voices are being re-recorded. A Pilots life gets updates all the time, so  I suspect this will happen rather quickly. 

[mspencer 349]

Well it's all AI generated, right? Sounds like they may have used an inexpensive AI voice generator to avoid a recurring cost every time you generate voices. The lower-end software is really noticeable, while ElevenLabs is doing professional voice cloning and getting ridiculous results.

[Bobsk8 11,872]

55 minutes ago, mspencer said:

Well it's all AI generated, right? Sounds like they may have used an inexpensive AI voice generator to avoid a recurring cost every time you generate voices. The lower-end software is really noticeable, while ElevenLabs is doing professional voice cloning and getting ridiculous results.

Many cabin announcements on flights I have taken in the last couple of decades, had prerecorded announcements that sounded pretty similar to what this program sounds like. The developer said the updated voices will be real voice recordings, not AI generated. 

Edited August 9 by Bobsk8

[vonduck 77]

I bought it and like the fact that its all automatically generated in different phases of flight... and indeed, reducing the volume to 10 percent is more realistic... good buy in my books!

[wain 182]

Bought this but not tried it yet, SIM issues earlier...having SLC crashing mid flight so hopefully this gives me want I really want which is a bit of ambient chatter in the background, don't really need an app that tells me what my Ai pax think of my flying..

[mspencer 349]

5 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Many cabin announcements on flights I have taken in the last couple of decades, had prerecorded announcements that sounded pretty similar to what this program sounds like. The developer said the updated voices will be real voice recordings, not AI generated. 

Bob, not what I’m referencing. PRAS is on lots of planes, I’ve worked on two, it’s basically an MP3 player hooked into the PA system. 
 

My understanding of what Ovidiu was trying to accomplish with this was dynamic AI generated voices, which would explain the issues with cadence. 
 

When you consider how quickly that field is evolving, there’s a huge delta between the COTS solutions from 2021 versus today. ElevenLabs could be used, with suitable enough samples, to fool most automated voice recognition systems, for example. Even without the detailed cloning, I have a functional, decent cloned voice of Barack Obama that can read you an audiobook in Hindi.

[icewater5 181]

6 hours ago, vonduck said:

I bought it and like the fact that its all automatically generated in different phases of flight... and indeed, reducing the volume to 10 percent is more realistic... good buy in my books!

Realistic timing to flight phases is essential imo. Iff they are doing this that is good.

I dont know about ai generated voices as opposed to actual audio wave file recordings but whatever sounds best is what counts.

Edited August 9 by icewater5

[Bobsk8 11,872]

2 hours ago, icewater5 said:

Realistic timing to flight phases is essential imo. Iff they are doing this that is good.

I dont know about ai generated voices as opposed to actual audio wave file recordings but whatever sounds best is what counts.

The timing in this app is excellent. from boarding announcements, to taxi to gate after landing , everything is tied perfectly to the stage of flight. 

Edited August 10 by Bobsk8

[Beagle12 120]

Do they work with the Commanche PA24?

[Bobsk8 11,872]

1 minute ago, Beagle12 said:

Do they work with the Commanche PA24?

I don't think they have flight attendants on the Comanche.