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#2930 Adjustments to ATIS voice defaults

2024.1
New
Henning
None
Low
2024-11-08
2024-11-03
ranguli
No

This ticket is regarding the discussing on the mailing list regarding the default behavior of the ATIS voice default behavior. The solution as proposed on the mailing list:

1) We leave /sim/sound/voices/enabled=true in default.xml, but remove the "Welcome aboard! Need help? Use 'Help -> Tutorials'." message.
2) We add a little bit of Nasal so that voices are disabled immediately if it is switched off from the Sound dialog to screen.nas.
3) We add a new startup tip to the splash screen that mentions tutorials. This would be translated via the normal processes.
4) We swap the default COMM2 frequencies around so that the GND is active and ATIS is on standby. This will remove the issue of ATIS being on
by default, while still leaving it easily accessible.

I think this addresses the key issues raised (blaring welcome message, ATIS always on), but doesn't impact accessibility through the TTS system.

All of this is pretty straightforward. I'm happy to do it, though just about anyone could as it's all XML and some trivial Nasal.

I wonder if we should change src/Sound/voice.cxx to pick up
/sim/sound/voices/enabled not only on startup but also during runtime?

Henning has already pushed a fix for part of this ticket.

Discussion

  • ranguli

    ranguli - 2024-11-03
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 This ticket is regarding the discussing on the mailing list regarding the default behavior of the ATIS voice default behavior. The solution as proposed on the mailing list:

-> 
 > 1) We leave /sim/sound/voices/enabled=true in default.xml, but remove the "Welcome aboard! Need help? Use 'Help -> Tutorials'." message.
 > 2) We add a little bit of Nasal so that voices are disabled immediately if it is switched off from the Sound dialog to screen.nas.
 > 3) We add a new startup tip to the splash screen that mentions tutorials. This would be translated via the normal processes.
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 > I think this addresses the key issues raised (blaring welcome message, ATIS always on), but doesn't impact accessibility through the TTS system.
 > 
 > All of this is pretty straightforward. I'm happy to do it, though just about anyone could as it's all XML and some trivial Nasal.
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+> I wonder if we should change src/Sound/voice.cxx to pick up
+> /sim/sound/voices/enabled not only on startup but also during runtime?
+
+Henning has already pushed a fix for part of this ticket.
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    • assigned_to: Henning
     

  • Josh Davidson

    Josh Davidson - 2024-11-06

    I'm curious if we've reached a decions on the default status when no settings exist?

     

  • Stuart Buchanan

    Stuart Buchanan - 2024-11-08

    I've just pushed 19d1f41f1045114f012cd169b0afa5cfb26bb1dd to both next and release/2024.1.

    This addresses item 4 on the list above - swaps the COMM2 frequencies so GND is active and ATIS is standby.

    I think we decided to leave /sim/sound/voice/enabled=true as the default.

    I think with the two changes Henning and I have made the situation is massively improved. The user will now just get voice communications about the AI aircraft.

     

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