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

[Torsten D. <to...@t3...>]

>> IIRC (it's been a long time since I added the TTS system),
>> the ATIS should only generate audio if a radio is tuned to an ATIS 
>> frequency.
>> If not, I'd consider it as a bug.
>>
> That’s correct and working, but I think many aircraft default tune 
> COM1 to nearest airport’s ATIS, so often once avionics power-up, 
> either manually or through auto-start, the ATIS voice begins 
> ‘immediately’.
Great, sounds correct to me.
>
>> The "welcome aboard" thing is a different thing, there should be a 
>> property
>> somewhere that controls if chat/help messages are generated as speech.
>>
> Right, and that option exists and even has a UI I think, but defaults 
> to ON for reasons of accessibility. We could default to OFF and add a 
> startup screen tip to enable voice readback?
>
A while ago, there were visual impaired users of flightgear, not sure if 
that behavior was an outcome of the discussion back then.

We should make a wise decision here.

Torsten