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

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 30 Sep 2024, at 19:05, Daniel Overbeck via Flightgear-devel <fli...@li...> wrote:
> 
> The real ATIS voice of most airports is as bad as the one from FlightGear, so this is a pretty good match.

Right, and the real ATIS does loop forever, if the COM frequency is tuned. If auto-tuning is being done centrally and is not wanted, we need to add a

	/sim/startup/auto-tune-com2=true | false

… to control this behaviour explicitly, and not add hacky workarounds to aircraft.

BTW this also why we judged Flite-HTS to be acceptable for use in FG - it’s license compatible and the sound quality is comparable to many automated systems used in aviation. There is no offline (as opposed to cloud based), platform-independent text-to-speech solution comparable to the proprietary ones available in Windows and macOS, to the best of my knowledge.

James