ATC "Good bye" should be "Goodbye"

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Brief description of the issue:

New ATC language includes “Good bye”, whereas the actual word in English is “Goodbye”. The ATC text-to-speech voices “Good bye” in a more aggressive tone than the single word would be.

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Yes. I’ve always thought the current pronunciation was pretty dismissive sounding, or in the OP’s words, aggressive. It’s kind of like when someone says “Good day” and stomps off, rather than “G’day” (said in an Australian accent!).
I know it’s just preference, but the current version just sounds wrong to me…

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G’day is accurate–not goodbye.

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Can we get them to say, “Hasta la vista, Baby!”

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Snorted diet coke out the nose at that one!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Mentioned this in another thread. An occasional “thanks, see ya, thank you, have a good one”, would be a nice little change that shouldn’t be too labor intensive I’d guess.

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Agreed, the current “Good … Bye” is not natural - not just the gap, but somehow the tone seems off. A normal “Goodbye” would be ok. The previous Good Day seemed pretty natural too.

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After years of listening to real ATC I’ve never heard anyone say “Good Bye”, it should be “Good Day”

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So if the good ATC practice is to use “Good Day” and if OP is agree, title should be updated to “Good Day” instead of “Goodbye”, as well as description of the issue. And also the feedback that has already been sent to the Devs if not too late.

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There is also appears to be a difference in the speech inflection between “Good day” and “good day”, with “good day” sounding a lot less dismissive, than the original “Good day” what sounds more like “GOOD day”

This has always been the case (with the Azure TTS engine"

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Then introduced in SU14, is

  • “resume own navigation”

now being pronounced

  • “rĂ©sumĂ© own navigation”

( My Language has always been set to English US )

I have temporarily edit the Language file’s TTS to

  • good day
  • re-zoom

because the way ATC was speaking was really starting to grate !! – but obviously an official FIX is needed by Asobo.

(Note: The Azure free TTS demo has been removed from Azure TTS site. which is a shame – it was very informative to play with !!)

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You used the words “snort”, “coke” and “nose” in the same sentence so you are now under ToC violation investigation. :crazy_face:

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Under investigation Again??!! Well this isn’t going to plan! :grimacing: :grimacing:

:rofl:
Regards

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It always makes me think of this…

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It always make me think of "Have a Magical Disney day”

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I’m super intrigued, are there resources on how to edit those files, or where they are located?

I don’t think its any great secret – there are MODS to improve the ATC phraseology, based on the Country the ATC is being used in.
ie USA or European.

ie. On FlightSim.to

If you want to make you own custom edits …

WARNING: Make a backup first, and only attempt to edit this file if you are comfortable editing a text file.
Edit at your own risk etc etc etc

A Bad edit may cause MSFS not to run correctly

file is a text file called en-US.locPak file

\Packages\Official\OneStore\fs-base\en-US.locPak

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I’m trying to remember now but, I really think that saying anything extraneous is, well, extraneous.

Do we even need a Goodbye?

I can tell you, you aren’t likely to get a lot of goodbyes from New York Center or SoCal Approach (just examples).

Those guys are talking almost nonstop!

Although I remember both an, “Adios” and a, “Have a nice rest of the day” from a Houston Center dude out El Paso way.

If you fly VFR in the UK it’s often “Bye bye” or even just “Bye”. As in, “Thanks for the transition, bye”. And a double-click from the other end.

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Easy to do, and you can get it to say whatever you want.

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To be exact, you can CHANGE what it says to something else, whatever ever you want following the current embedded codes, but you cannot get it to say “whatever you want”,

ie say “Good day” or “Good Night” or “Have a nice [day-of-week]” according to the time of day or the day of the week

And some of these embedded codes, do not return the correct “text”, and I do not see a way for the user to change that or re-code them ?

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