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I am wondering if FSX will have a beter "Auto Voice Program" (or what ever you call it    You know the thing that figures out how to pronouce a airport name?)

Like on my FS8 it pronouces my home airport of Smyrna(KMQY) Smear-na where it SHOULD be pronounced Smir-na.


do you think the program will be better and understand things like that?

It is very difficult to make a computer talk like a normal human with as little errors as possible due to the complexities of the English language [i.e.: dictations, silent letters, vowels, pronounciations, hyphenated names, etc.]. So, I doubt FSX would hit the mark on correctness, but I believe it would be able to step in the right direction.

I still like when one of the ATC guys says "Gay-a" instead of "Guy-a" for th Gaia Airlines.

Yea, some of the voices are different too.  My pilot says somethings really funny.

[quote]Yea, some of the voices are different too.

Like on my FS8 it pronouces my home airport of Smyrna(KMQY) Smear-na where it SHOULD be pronounced Smir-na.

I would have pronounced it smear-na too, so I guess it isn't that bad after all

None of them speaks Ingish proper like wot we does anyway  ;D

Are the names generated dynamically you think?  I always thought they were prerecorded for each place where the name is used instead of the code.

[quote]Are the names generated dynamically you think?

Airshow_lover, why numbers 10 to 36? I've always heard the runway number spelled in two parts : 1-1 for 11 or 3-6 for 36 and so on .

Oh yeah!

every name of every airport, runway, taxiway, etc... was recorded. and then by 11 different people (the FS SDK offers 2 more)

i've been meesing with the FS SDK creating my own pilots voice. there are over 30,000 things to say. i may have done mabye 200.

it's all in dictation. i read the ATC article, here's an example:

Flight 123, you are clear to albuquerque, fly heading 270.

now when you say 'to albuquerque', your saying "to walbuquerque." thats why you hear those "glitches" in dictation. it's because we slur our speech.

Ramos

just slap microsoft sam in their then u can pretend steven hawkins is doing ATC lol

what I would really like to have is different accents of the ATC...like for example when you fly over uzbekisatan you can hardly understand what hes trying to say!  ;D

Even though as I said above my pilot sounds funny, I still think that the ATC is just fine.  They dont sound like robots, they sound like people.  I think itd be cool if they let YOU speak instead of your pilot, sorta a voice recognition kind of thing.