The ATC announcement's.

xxThe_Dice_manxx

xxThe_Dice_manxx
I had an idea !

With the ATC voices getting repetitive quickly as the same person seems to have a teleportation device between many stations I was thinking why not let the community contribute by adding their voices to the ATC and the like?

FDev could issue scripts and the required spec and format of the ATC speech clips and let whoever wants to send their recording in.

After all a lot of us have high end PC's with quality mics ,I'm sure they would love to add their voice the game and be part of it forever.

I heard Obsidian Ant at a station which was awesome.

So what sort of format would the recording need be done? And how high a quality?

Would anyone be up for it?
 

Muzz UK

Muzz UK
As much as it's a cool idea I think it would take too much of Fdevs time that they would rather spend on other things, sorry op! Would take quite a bit of work and create a lot of network traffic sending files not forgetting security issue of user submitted content.
 

xxThe_Dice_manxx

xxThe_Dice_manxx
Far as I know flac files cannot be used as rats etc, but it really depends on the format which the recording would need be in concerning security.

Far as I recall the ATC folks have a repertoire of about ten lines of dialog which could be squeezed onto a very small flac file no more than 100mb probably much less so band width would not be an issue.

The time taken to do such a thing would be mostly getting a script together then instructions on what is required and what best equipment etc to use with an example recording for people to copy.

Then it would take someone to quality assure applications and convert them to whatever file format goes into the game files.

It would be daily easy I would think if applicants have followed the instructions correctly.
 

xxThe_Dice_manxx

xxThe_Dice_manxx
Hellakitty said:
OP, to prove you're serious about this I think you should record some lines yourself and upload them somewhere where we can all have a listen.
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Not me not a chance in hell , my thick Belfast accent sounds terrible to my ear so I would not expose pilots to it theyed stop playing the game.
 

Shiro Akai

Shiro Akai
As much as I approve the idea - I have a bad feeling about overall quality of those recordings.

- "Attention CMDR, you're approaching Federal station <dog barking in the background>. Please follow standard docking procedure"
- "Zorgon Peterson Sierra Hotel India, Imperial Flight Operations welcome you in this facility <honey, could you throw the trash away? Sure sweetie, in a moment>. Docking request approved, you are assigned to pad number 42"
- "Attention, you are now leaving <Nokia tune, ti du di, ti du di, ti ti du dii> our station, You may proceed with your flight plan."
 

Sylow

Sylow
Shiro Akai said:
As much as I approve the idea - I have a bad feeling about overall quality of those recordings.

- "Attention CMDR, you're approaching Federal station <dog barking in the background>. Please follow standard docking procedure"
- "Zorgon Peterson Sierra Hotel India, Imperial Flight Operations welcome you in this facility <honey, could you throw the trash away? Sure sweetie, in a moment>. Docking request approved, you are assigned to pad number 42"
- "Attention, you are now leaving <Nokia tune, ti du di, ti du di, ti ti du dii> our station, You may proceed with your flight plan."
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And that's still the harmless part. Just wait till some recording has parts of a song in the background. Faint enough so you perhaps don't even hear it in the game, but still present. Some music search algorithm would be able to locate and identify it. It'd just have to stumble over the stream of somebody playing the game and the triggers would go off. There are some bands which have gained fame for searching the internet for traces of their songs and suing everybody who had even fragments of them in their content.
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Doing such recordings in a clean environment might be more costly on the short run, but is the much saver and often cheaper way in the long run. And that's even before considering through how much nonsense and stuff the sound team would have to go through, to find the real gems.
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For don't get me wrong: there would be some real gems among all the stuff FD would get. But the signal to noise ratio in such activities often is terribly, and that's even before taking a look at some groups of this game, which honestly are even nourishing and fostering the reputation of being nothing else but a huge band of trolls. It's not hard to guess that they'd provide plenty of sound recordings of very limited value. (While trying to smuggle in a lot of things, with the whole purpose of getting FD into trouble. )
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Gaarp Kobayashi

Gaarp Kobayashi
xxThe_Dice_manxx said:
I had an idea !

With the ATC voices getting repetitive quickly as the same person seems to have a teleportation device between many stations I was thinking why not let the community contribute by adding their voices to the ATC and the like?

FDev could issue scripts and the required spec and format of the ATC speech clips and let whoever wants to send their recording in.

After all a lot of us have high end PC's with quality mics ,I'm sure they would love to add their voice the game and be part of it forever.

I heard Obsidian Ant at a station which was awesome.

So what sort of format would the recording need be done? And how high a quality?

Would anyone be up for it?
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Oh man. Appreciate your input, but I'm affraid your post is so wrong in so many places I have no idea where to start. Let's make it short then:

1) ATC voices repetitive? Never had this impression. Various genders, various accents, various lines all mixed up such way I had never the impression of repetiveness. It's one of the best features post 2.0 imho;

2) "(...) High end PC's with quality mics", really? Man, you have no idea about proffessional sound engeneering, do you? It takes way more than high end PC and "quality mics", btw those "quality mics" you're talking about have little in common with professional sound studio sets, the biggest differenc is a price tag. Believe me, non of us have professional recording mics;

3) Proffessional audio postprodiction takes many times more time than the recordings itself;

Your idea would be pretty cool, If we would be talking gaming industry in 80s, not 2018 I'm affraid:)

Why don't you focus on your side of the game? Enjoy one of the best gaming audio there is in Elite Dangerous and fly dangerously, Commander! o7
 
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Sylow

Sylow
Gaarp Kobayashi said:
Believe me, non of us have professional recording mics;
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Just a tiny correction: most of us don't. I coooould snatch the one of my wife. I'd still sound terrible, though.
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For the rest, I think you are right. But I'd still be more worried about abuse and legal concerns. For the matter of ATC sound, a bit of "microphone induced quality loss" by itself could maybe be fine. In some eyes (or rather ears) it would just add to realism. But if somebody submits something shady, it slips through and the vultures (aka: lawyers) descend on FD, things will be grim.
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Stealthie

Stealthie
I suppose it could be done but I'm not sure it'd be worth the effort.

I mean, you'd have to get people recording an entire set of ATC dialogues and then, even if you had 20,30 or 40 different dialogue sets, players would soon come to recognise them and there'd still be the same perception of duplication that you currently get.

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I always used to like the jock ATC who always sounded really disapproving of players who used a docking computer.
I wonder what happened to him? [sad]

"Y'r cleared f'r assist'd dokin'... this time!"
 

UseLessUK

UseLessUK
For me, every station in the game should get the ATC from Colonia Dream... I'd be happy with that or a COVAS from the same person :D
 

xxThe_Dice_manxx

xxThe_Dice_manxx
Gaarp Kobayashi said:
Oh man. Appreciate your input, but I'm affraid your post is so wrong in so many places I have no idea where to start. Let's make it short then:

1) ATC voices repetitive? Never had this impression. Various genders, various accents, various lines all mixed up such way I had never the impression of repetiveness. It's one of the best features post 2.0 imho;

2) "(...) High end PC's with quality mics", really? Man, you have no idea about proffessional sound engeneering, do you? It takes way more than high end PC and "quality mics", btw those "quality mics" you're talking about have little in common with professional sound studio sets, the biggest differenc is a price tag. Believe me, non of us have professional recording mics;

3) Proffessional audio postprodiction takes many times more time than the recordings itself;

Your idea would be pretty cool, If we would be talking gaming industry in 80s, not 2018 I'm affraid:)

Why don't you focus on your side of the game? Enjoy one of the best gaming audio there is in Elite Dangerous and fly dangerously, Commander! o7
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That's me told then...
 

Hellakitty

Hellakitty
Stealthie said:
I suppose it could be done but I'm not sure it'd be worth the effort.

I mean, you'd have to get people recording an entire set of ATC dialogues and then, even if you had 20,30 or 40 different dialogue sets, players would soon come to recognise them and there'd still be the same perception of duplication that you currently get.

*EDIT*

I always used to like the jock ATC who always sounded really disapproving of players who used a docking computer.
I wonder what happened to him? [sad]

"Y'r cleared f'r assist'd dokin'... this time!"
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Yeah that dude disappeared. He also used to frequently say something along the lines of 'you're cleared for automated landing commander, next time may I suggest you learn how to fly your ship'.

Open letter to FD - bring back sarcastic Glaswegian ATC or gaem is doomed.
 
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