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Complex questions : Recording new ATC voice and using with EVP / RC4?

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Hi guys,

I find myself recuperating after a very long illness with a couple of months to do not very much at all :(

So - the thing in FS9 that bugs me more than ANYTHING is the ATC voices. I am a musician with quite a nice home recording and editing suite, so I would like to do something about it.

I have the ATC voicepack for FS2004. HOWEVER - I use EditVoicePack 3.1 to include all the callsigns for AI planes, and to set phrases using ICAO terminology rather than FAA. I am also starting to get into Radar Contact 4.

Is there a reasonably simple way to do this (the sifting and editing of the data aside, which is a mammoth task)? Will I need to record EVERY addon airline myself? Can I get the names I need to record from EVP by looking through the list?

And then, will this work with RC4(.3)?

If someone could take me through the basic processes I need to go through (or at least give me a starting point), I would be very grateful! :)

Thanks very much,

Martin Hughes
 
Sorry - an appendix to the above questions:

I've been looking through the SDK docs and phrase lists.

Does a voicepack have to include (for example) *every* airport name, or can voicepacks be selective? I want to create a voice pack for *me* - I fly to and from a limited number of airfields, so I don't want to be recording thousands of names of places I will never go.

Is this do-able?

Cheers :)

Martin
 
Martin,

I think you might be going about this the wrong way. EVP is used to add more specific names of airports/airlines/aircraft types to the existing gvp files.

You need to get the Voice Pack SDK from MS - or here in the download section. Then you can edit/create all the voices you need and add in the one you want. You would need to create all the talking parts also. - the communication phrases. The SDK gives you one voice with all 3000 wav files.

I don't think EVP allows you to add new wave files directly. You can modify existing voices to say new words. If you created wav files of your own of only airport names then the ATC would say:

C-FFGH you are cleared for departure to"

in one voice and insert your

"airport name"

in a second voice.

This means would have to create wav files of the comm phrases also. Is this what you plan to do also?

If you do use the SDK you don't need to create ALL the other airports names - they would just be dead air.

You would also need two sets of voice otherwise you would be talking to yourself so to speak on the radio.
 
You do not need to record multiple voices as you can simply keep the existing voicepack (FS is not limited to loading one file with voices). Unfortunately you can't prevent FS from selecting your voice for other pilots or the controller though.

While you do not need to record the names of all locations, you should - besides the location near you - include locations with AI traffic shceduled to fly to or from a location within the area you are flying in. For example if you only fly local in California you will still have radio traffic from all the international flights out of LA and SF.
 
Thanks for the replies! :)

As regards EVP - I just wondered if it was necessary to create the "modifications" for other airlines within EVP, but as you can apparently record custom airline names into a new voicepack, then that is not an issue.

I assume you just define the voice with XML (for example "Sunnybrisk Air") and record the wav(s), and then whenever Sunnybrisk Air comes up then that wav is used as the agent.

A very good friend of mine is a UK ATC, so I'm going to ask him if he would be willing to donate a spare day to record the controller voice. :D

I mainly fly heavies internationally in FS from Heathrow, so would record most of the major UK, France, and US airfields and any major fields on other continents...

Cheers!

Martin
 
I am a bit in doubt what you mean.

If you are thinking of simply adding the new airlines to a new voicepack file and expect FS to select this voicepack every time it needs the specific airline name, then no - that is not how it works.

The ATC system will assign a random voice to all other planes/controllers. If the voice happens to have the airline available it will be used - if not they will only say the flight number.
Your friends "controller voice" will just be avoice like every other voice to the ATC system. It might be used by a guy in a Cessna in the US as you pass by... and it might not be used by your Heathrow controller at all.

Besides the insane amount of work required to record the voices I suspect this is one of the main reasons we do not see any complete custom voicepacks out there - why bother recording an ATC sound with a Mexican accent if it is used in France as well? Then the existing US accents will do just as well.
 
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