AI voices in career mode immersion killing

The voices sound robotic, mispronounciations and inflections are terrible. Even worse, the dialog is right out of a Sesame Street or preschool learning program, not even close to realistic. Can you please have a toggle switch to turn it off until/if Asobo fixes it? There is already a toggle in the sound section to turn off ATC/co pilot, but I want them on. Thanks.

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They’ve done some work with the first two voice profiles but beyond that they go downhill quick. Since passengers seem to randomly pick voice profiles you can get one where it’s half passable and the next that is like raw voice over from windows 8

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Please allow 3rd party company to provide premium voices with interaction like sayintensionsAI

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The career mode passenger conversations are driving me mad through their sheer repetitiveness. Combined with sounding like they learned how to speak from Captain Kirk…

In the UK, your mother is generally referred to as your mum, or mother. Hardly ever mom, or mommy.

And why do passengers say it’s so quiet up here? They’re not wearing headsets, they’d hardly be able to hear themselves shout in a Cessna.

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You mean the constant nudge-nudge references during Flightseeing to Indiana Jones, which by some strange coincidence is one of the next big Microsoft games, isn’t to your liking? Where’s your sense of adventure? Where’s your hat and whip? You can almost hear “that famous music” playing in your head.

They were referencing The Lord of the Rings. Were they doing Indy too?

I’ve only heard (multiple) Indy refs; a few LotR would be a wonderful break to the tedium. Maybe the AI slop conversations are location dependent? :melting_face:

There was a reference to Gandalf on Eagle (less copyright of course)

Every time one of those emotionless voices tries to say something emotional it makes me want to beat my face on the desk… It’s like “I’m dead inside, but flying sure is neat!”

“Oh wow, is that Generic Midcity Dogpark!! My friends will be so excited about my epic pictures.”

I think my favorite tho is when my pilot calls the dispatcher at the beginning of a flight and says something like “Hey Jessica, you can begin boarding”

And an obviously male voice responds “Ok, they are on their way!”…

I find myself thinking, ‘Gosh Jessica, I think that sore throat of yours might be something more serious, have you seen a doctor?’

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The English voice overs, as bad as they are, are pretty high quality compared to other european languages I can use. Worst voices in a game released in the last 20 years. It’s pure comedy gold

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I’ve always worn a headset as a passenger in any GA plane (in any seat) and kind of assume it might be required, but the 3D models never wear them. But regardless, saying it’s quiet is silly no matter what. The voice lines are all very poorly done and don’t reflect the types of things people actually say. Like… why are there so many bad Indiana Jones references? That part kills me inside.

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My favorite is when I’m flying over empty land or a forested area, and one of the passengers comments on how great the roofs look up there.

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It is not required, but you’d be extremely uncomfortable without them. Almost nobody flies without them anymore.

How about the fact that nearly all of the females are named Lisa or Jennifer. I’ve had many flights with two Lisas or two Jennifers.

Yeah, and they are all old looking with liver spots on their faces.Lol

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Here’s a life hack for you:
enable a different language for voice messages during your career :laughing:

I had Jennifer and her Daughter Jennifer the other day… Jenn Jr I guess?

must be American :rofl:

Every passenger in VIP Charter is:

a) … a best buddy/friend of our boss and needs the VIP treatment (EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!)
b) … in a hurry and is pressing the pilot to “make it quick” (yea - that’s realistic lol)
c) … is worried about his/her friggin internet connection

For the love of god - have some merci & variety here. I am at the point where I don’t even mind the voices - simply what they say is making me want to jump from the plane

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And this from a world leader in cloud technology et al. This is 90’s technology right there! I feel ashamed and would never show this product to one of my friends. They would laugh at me. It’s that bad.

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