Re: [Flightgear-devel] That blaring voice...

[TheFGFSEagle <the...@gm...>]

The welcome aboard and replay stopped messages are indeed annoying
(especially when recording videos), but I've never heard any ATIS … I guess
it can be turned off ?

Am Mo., 30. Sept. 2024 um 00:53 Uhr schrieb Joshua Murphy <
fli...@jo...>:

> I strongly agree with Josh. The TTS voice is extremely grating, and
> unfortunately it has aged extremely poorly as well given the advancements
> in TTS quality over the last number of years. I never understood why a
> voice was ever used in these situations? All other directives to the users
> are in written form, except for the infamous "welcome aboard" and "replay
> stopped, your controls" messages.
>
> It's also particularly hard on the ears when you spawn in at an airport
> and immediately you are hit with overlapping voices from both AI aircraft,
> the ATC tower talking to other AI traffic (and immediately granting you
> takeoff clearance sometimes, depending on the situation/airport?) and the
> welcome message. If it's a heavy traffic area, you may have several
> overlapping voices occurring all within the first few seconds while you're
> still cold and dark.
>
> It makes sense for emulating a human voice over the radio, even if it does
> make ones ears bleed. But I think as Josh said, disabling it in non-radio
> contexts would be beneficial, and additionally I would add having tighter
> timings on when TTS voices are allowed to chime in. If you're listening to
> two separate radios, overlapping voices are to be expected. But if you're
> plane is powered down, one TTS voice is too many.
>
> All the best,
> Joshua
> On Sunday, September 29th, 2024 at 7:58 PM, Josh Davidson <
> jos...@ou...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I really need to ask about this, because I DON'T understand.
>
> When starting FG for the first time, users are presented with this quite
> harsh voice "Welc-hum ab-hard, need h-elp, use h-elp tutor-heals"
>
> It's quite jarring.
>
> And then, the ATIS starts blaring in this same harsh voice...
>
> Can someone help me understand this decision? I find it to be quite a turn
> off, and I imagine a new user would be frantically clicking around trying
> to figure out how to make the blare stop.
>
> Because, in the real plane, we do not just leave ATIS blaring. It's
> distracting. That radio with ATIS tuned is either muted or tuned elsewhere
> until we need ATIS, then we tune, get ATIS, and untune.
>
> I would propose that we maybe address this for 2024.1:
>
>    - Disabling this blaring voice on startup - there's already the
>    message, who needs it?
>    - Keeping the second comm radio muted by default (then auto-tuning the
>    freq is ok and can be useful).
>    - There is no sense in having an ATIS tuned radio blaring.
>
>
> Hope to hear your thoughts,
>
> Bests,
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
> Josh Davidson
>
>
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