ATC and pilot mispronounce Birmingham, England

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Brief description of the issue:

TTS mispronounces Birmingham, England. It currently pronounces it the way Birmingham, Alabama is pronounced, which is wrong.
Here is a video of the proper pronunciation.

I have created several other bugs for mispronunciations, but this one is different. Normally, I would say, edit the three lines below and everything will be fine. However, the first two ones (with the red circles) share a name with Birmingham, Alabama.

Line Current Value Suggested Value
ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME BIRMINGHAM APPROACH.0.tts :red_circle: Birmingham Birmingum
ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME BIRMINGHAM.0.tts :red_circle: Birmingham Birmingum
ATCCOM.AIRPORT EGBB.0.tts Birmingam :purple_circle: Birmingum

:red_circle: Note: These two entries are shared between Birmingham, Alabama and Birmingham, England. A new entry should be made for one of the two airports and the one for Birmingham, England should be changed to have a value of “Birmimgum”.

:purple_circle: Note: This value was changed in SU5 from “Birmingham” to “Birmingam”. This still sounds wrong (see second video below). “Birmingum” sounds a lot more accurate.

Please see the Screenshots section for how this sounds with the suggested changes.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

This is how the current pronunciation sounds:

This is how the entry with the :purple_circle: sounds after Sim Update 5 with the word “Birmingam” written in the .locPak file (note that this still does not sound right):

This is how it sounds with the suggested pronunciation:

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

  1. Start Microsoft Flight Simulator.
  2. In the World Map, start a flight at EGBB. In the videos, above, I start cold and dark so that I can talk to Birmingham Ground.

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I first became aware of this in 1.26.5.0 but it has probably been like this since release.

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We need a full Brummie accent selectable, just for fun. I’m sure it mispronounces Airbuz as well. :grin:

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Your fixed version is better but the intonation is still wrong, it needs to end in a rising tone not a falling tone.

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There is only so much I can do. There is no documentation that I have been able to find on how to manipulate the TTS beyond changing letters around.
The ATC bugs I submitted took hours of changes and restarting MSFS to get as good as they are. Feel free to experiment and recommend something better.

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Can we get these in one thread so there aren’t 800 of them clogging up the section, please?