MarStrMind

Since I find SayIntentions too expensive, and wanted Pilot2ATC to sound a bit better, I came up with an elegant solution I believe. I have written a Python script, which effectively evaluates the text output of Pilot2ATC (needs to be enabled), reads what ATC actually said, pipes into one of Amazon's cool Polly voices, and then plays it for you. Polly is Amazon's voice generation technology, and basically offers two primary models: standard and neural. I have posted the script including all instructions on my page: marstr.online - Pilot2AWS (Updates to the script will always be posted there) ----------- Polly's voices are not free, but the best compromise I could find between letting a voice sound natural, while keeping the cost as little as possible. Of course, like the Windows standard voices, you could pipe the output of these voices into VoiceMeeter with some kind of VST plugin to get an actual radio effect. Could be cool. All details are on my page. Read the instructions carefully. Enjoy!

I think it is quite an interesting product and worth having an eye on... but $30 is a bit much. I have been playing around with ChatGPT as my virtual ATC (with browser addons it has speech recognition and reads responses out loud), which - in my opinion - can work quite well. It can read flight plans exported from SimBrief, so... I would have to figure out a way to either interface directly with my sim or feed it information about the sim, such as altitude, air speed, etc. Of course, I also looked at Pilot2ATC which is also pretty good for what it does - offline. No AI model behind it. That would be about $50, but a one-time-fee to use the tool forever. The browser addon with the voices I found, which makes ChatGPT is not free either, but definitely more affrodable than SayIntentions.ai. I think it's like $5 or so per month. It's called VoiceWave and I found it to be quite good. Seems to use Azure voices.