Not particularly in filling voice databases, but in its core concept, tmho. The current implemented system has space for improvement, While in Africa, well, you may not hear anything at all.Īpproaching Buenos Aires may get you in touch with Daniela! When i fly in France, you may meet a guy who refuses to speak english,Īnd when you fly in China, you will hear sweet robot voices,Īnd if you fly in Switzerland’s Samedan, you will need to change your pants after landing, Take this serious or virtual accidents happen. Voice must be loud and awakening, transmissions must have that typical sound backnoise and must be dominant. X-plane’s ATC should interact and voice is the tool!
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Mess environment of radio noise coming from multiple participants at multiple stages of ops and at multiple geographical locations, male and female, pro and student.Ī vast going matrix experience that tells me, i am live, i am flying, things happen, gotta watch out, we got 777s just like Nighthawks lining up on 8R, oh hell there is heli coming in and that Cessna Student just has no clue where to go. TOL (very hard to text that stuff rather than discussing it face to face):įrom my point of view, the objective for an ATC system should be a fluent, clearly spoken, technically electronic sounding
To consider cultural variety or accents, like Daniela’s argentine :). This type of feature IS actually possible someday but it is NOT done on the pronunciation level in the spreadsheet.įilling a pronounciation database is a cool idea to reflect community effort and For example, the word Boston should be “Baw-stun” even if regionally they’d say “Bah-stin”. Please do not attempt to use pronunciation to create regional accents in the spoken words as this will make things more difficult. However, you can also use Google’s online synthesizer or various others.
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It is suggested that you create a free Amazon Web Services account and use the Amazon Polly Text-To-Speech synthesizer online to listen to your syntax before editing the spreadsheet. They all should work fine, independent of the TTS engine used.
There are many resources available on the web to help learn SSML syntax as well as pronunciation characters. Speech and pronunciation can also be adjusted by using the SSML standard. That’s why the two columns exist independently. For example, you may want to display “B737-800” as an aircraft type in text, but you may want to say “737 800” in speech without the ‘B’ and without pronouncing the ‘dash’. Because of this, the ATC engine needs data for text and speech. Others may disable the text and only want to hear spoken commands. It’s important to note that some users will disable ATC speech and just want to see textual ATC commands. The other is what will be spoken as audio output. One is what the ATC engine will display as text on screen. Each category tab has two common editable fields. The spreadsheet currently contains 5 tabs along the bottom for the categories: Airlines, Airports, Aircraft Makers, Aircraft Models and VORs, as well as an instructions tab. We will periodically grab the latest spreadsheets with community corrections and rebuild our internal speech resources to include the new corrected pronunciations, then make them available as part of standard X-Plane updates. We have made our spreadsheets public so that the community can edit them to correct mistakes that they may find. Regionalization and other types of specialization are often necessary to improve the accuracy of the speech. While the TTS engine is very good at getting reasonable pronunciations for most things, it is by no means perfect. These are then processed and saved as part of the X-Plane resources which are distributed as part of the application. Several spreadsheets of vocabulary are fed to the cloud engine to be spoken and saved as individual sound files.
The spoken phrases and names of the ATC system come from a cloud-base Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine.
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