Voice ATC

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Yes, I know what you’re thinking. This would be a rubbish idea and would be dominated by trolls. And it would be in the conventional way (similar to Discord/teamspeak). However, my idea is to have voice commands for ATC. Here’s an example.

User (Voice) “Speedbird 18, ready for pushback runway 09L.”

This then gets transmitted on the frequency as that, but using the artificial voice. If someone said something that’s not a command the system could just ignore it.

Apologies if this isn’t the clearest feature request, I’m making this at 1am. I’ll edit it shortly if it doesn’t really make sense.

Anyway what are your thoughts?

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But then you get errors that you cant fix

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What do you mean? If the voice recognition doesn’t identify something you can just use the standard ATC menu.

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Yeah… Exactly that… Also it would probably lag as IF is taking in that information and doing it for you…

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Not really. Most modern voice recognition systems (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant) recognise what you’re saying as you’re saying it.

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If it’s picked up wrong then that can be bad and a lot of people don’t have perfect English skills or an accent that can be picked up by that.

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I think it is an AMAZING idea! For those people whos voices don’t get picked up, they can just do it the old fasioned way! :)

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This idea has its ups and down. At the moment there is a service called IFSIM which provides the services. http://www.ifsim.tk

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The only problem is, not everyone are fluent in English as all Infinite Flight Players comes from every part of the world

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Exactly, that’s a very important thing

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Oh I know what you mean, but it could be a little challeging and a pain in the *ss due to 70% of the live players don´t even know what does “line up and wait” means. Cheers!

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Hmmm that’s just pure VATC, not Voice to ATC.

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I’m really enthusiastic about this idea. This is a must have!

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There can be an option to translate ATC instructions to the users language.

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This idea would add so much realism to the game. I would love to see this implemented. On the other had, it does have some negative points to it.

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Great idea! This would help many ways. For example, when Tower sends you to departure, your guy acknowledges using “Contacting ______ Departure on 123.1” but it could be used as “Over to Departure, g’day”.
Sadly, it would be hard to implement:(

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In what way? If they use a widespread voice recognition API, it should be able to correspond with almost every accent.

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@mrpidgeon… MaxSez: The IF Assistant App proves voice recognition features do not function universally on this platform. The App’s failure rate for inflection, accent etc error or non recognition is significant. Why add this feature when the Assistant App has shown voice recognition for this platform is a crap shoot?

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No offense to the Dev, but he probably didn’t use a very widespread voice recognition API. If you use a good one (by Google, or Microsoft) it’s likely to work with every accent.

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@mrpidgeon… No voice recognition system works for me due to an accent.
SIRI laughs at me! Nice idea but, is it worth the time, effort and cost for IF. I don’t think so… Regards, Max

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