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Changing ATC accents (Read 320 times)
Apr 13th, 2004 at 2:49pm

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Can anyone tell me if there is software out there that will change the standard American  accent to an English one?

Before all you Yanks start getting on your high horses with claims of racism, I love you guys!! Wink but, I think that it would make my flights over Wales more authentic as I am not aware of any American ATC guys at Cardiff!!

Also, on the subject of ATC, why can't Microsoft allow the ATC programme to operate in multiplayer?

................Oh I can imagine the responses to this one!!

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Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 3:25pm

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Hmmm....complaining about us Yanks huh? Grin
Actually I would love to have the ATC have regional accents. Fly into dallas and have a good old southern accent...fly to London have a nifty english accent.
The bad part is that there is no add-on to "fix" this
 

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Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 4:00pm

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I'm right there with you on this one  Wink.  This is a "feature" that I have wanted since fs2002.  Contrary to M$'s opinion,  the whole world is NOT "America".

Flying in places like Japan and hearing "plain vanilla" American accents is totally disconcerting.

I understand thje likely problem thouh.......

Every stocke response that makes up the ATC langnguage lexicon would have to be totally repeated for EACH version of "accented" English.  So let's say that you only wanted UK English, US English, Japanese accented English, Spanish accented English, French accented English, and Russina accented English.......
the language data file would be 5 times the size it already is.  Plus the work to create it (see the M$ main FS website for documentation of what it took) would be 5X too.

But yeah...... I want that to be in the next release.

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....................john

PS:  Maybe Microsoft could release (sell) add on "Voicepacks" that cover the ATC voices region by region as an add on onto the base "stock American" voices?  They'd then just have to code in the facility to recognize the regions into the main sim.  Then add-on developers could possible do it too.
 

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