Hello everyone.

First a word to the mods…

I have sought and obtained Captain Sim’s (Tanya K.) permission to post this thread.

I am pleased to inform Captain Sim 767 & 757 captains that it is now possible to operate these beautiful birds in a multi-crew environment using voice control.

You know it can be tough to operate the heavies on your own. For example setting speed, heading and altitude on MCP panel can be a challenge when your hands are tied to the controls.



Enters Multi Crew Experience (MCE) an add-on that lets you do just that and many other things. Nothing is scripted. Need something to be done while your hands are full, simply speak it.

Since a fully working time limited Demo is available for download, all you would need is a headset with microphone to experience the thrill of voice control.

Demo available here: http://www.multicrewxp.com/

Should you need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the support team.

Regards,

Ian G. R
On behalf of the FS++ team

mealytitan wrote on Jun 11^th, 2011 at 12:40am:


Hi Jake

Just click FSX menu Options->Settings->General

The general-Settings dialog will appear.

Tick the "Use a pilot voice" and "Show ATC text" boxes on the right.

That's because in addition to aircraft voice control, MCE allows you to speak to default ATC (and RC4 as well). For realism the Pilot voice has to be turned OFF. But as you can see, it's just a setting that can be adjusted via FSX dialog box. MCE does not modify any config file inside the FSX folder.

Cheers,

Ian

mealytitan wrote on Jun 11^th, 2011 at 7:12pm:


You're welcome!


Ian

Thanks Ian.

I'll be sure to give it a try.

Mark

That's the vital point, Morten.
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I think they've recorded some real voices now, if I got that right. So it should give a way better voice experience than the computer voice in the videos which, on the sheer voice aspect, came in a bit monotonously.

Videos may be needed for products that don't have a Demo. They can be very deceptive. I mean you could edit out all the repeats, and make it look like you are talking to a real person.

As said before, trial has been reset, and you can try it out and make your mind up. If you need help, just get in touch with support, even if you don't intend to buy.

And yes, as CoolIP pointed out, we now have pre-recorded voice sets for all crew members.

Ian

I'll just drop my first impression I've posted here. In short, I've instantly bought that software. What a treat!
http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1324218011/0#4

ATC and their voices come from FSX (or the addon in use), MCE just offers the interface interaction. But I haven't tried that feature as my ATC is online or totally silent when I just want to fly.

I think you folks will like MCE, that's where the trial comes in handy. You will also like the voices for the FO as they have nothing to do with the boring videos on the site. I've actually had to laugh more than once about my smart FO, telling me that my curse word on the approach was inappropriate behaviour for a Captain. 

For the folks running a non English version of Windows, some preparation might be needed though.
But that's needed on all current voice titles for FSX, may this be FS2Crew, VoxATC or something else. They are all based on English voice recognition, which can be added for free (and legal!) to any Windows Vista/7 version. So be aware that this step may be the worst about that program.

Pro Flight Emulator PFE is a button based ATC addon with really good voices if one goes for the extra voice pack. You will have local variations there. Here are some samples. [url]http://secure.simmarket.com/another company-online-pro-flight-emulator-deluxe.phtml[/url] Note the samples are done very clear, but you can alter the radio interference sounds and things in the program.

But maybe some folks did a freeware to just exchange the voices in the default ATC.

I think they've just went the honest way, showing how it sounds like without any edits.

True on some presentation methods among devs in the business. I think it just shows that quite some are very good devs, but not so good on the PR. Unfortunately, you sometimes get the other possible combination, the one with a ton of PR and poor products.
I also saw scenery getting promoted with a ton of edited screenshots, planes too (not CS!). When looking at some videos, some companies edit extra raindrops, use a ton of bloom and so on. Sometimes the product is really good though and those edits actually harm it in my humble eyes.

Back to MCE. I think some current videos would help. However, as there is a trial version, everyone can test how good the new voices really are.
And on PFE. I think Youtube may offer some ingame videos. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer a trial.

CoolP wrote on May 12^th, 2012 at 2:45pm:

Very nice! I still need to buy a new set of headphones, to replace my broken ones. I guess I need to bite the bullet and buy some!

CoolP wrote on May 13^th, 2012 at 10:02am:

Is 'Roberto' pronounced with a French accent? I hope not, because I have an Aussie accent!

Acts as a HU. There now is a forum section over at Avsim to allow for questions and wishes. It's unofficial, but surely helpful I guess. http://forum.avsim.net/forum/548-the-multi-crew-experience-mce/