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Making Pilot2ATC sound more natural - and better X-Plane I decided to pull the trigger and purchase Pilot2ATC, as it is - in my opinion - the best available offline ATC companion software you can currently purchase. Plus, it is compatible with X-Plane and MSFS too. However, the voices you can select for speech are the ones you currently have available on your machine. By default, it is not much. To remedy that, I have already posted an article: (Link). But there is a better option: Amazon Polly. It runs on AWS and is the result of their research into the field of modern voice synthesizing. They have two models: standard and neural. As you may guess, neural is the better option - but also the more expensive one. I have written a Python script using boto3 and pygame, which leverages Amazon's Polly tech to generate better sounding voices for Pilot2ATC. It is entirely free to use. Have a look into my repo page for that: (Link). All instructions are listed there. I tried it with these voices, and let me tell you this: it absolutely adds to the immersion and realism, no matter which model you choose. Enjoy! |