Classic British Flight Sim

Is there anyway to map the ATC options 1,2,3 etc to button presses?

If you use FSUIPC you can map buttons to the ATC menu options, alternatively you could use the build in voice recognition.

DaveG wrote: ↑

03 May 2020, 12:38

If you use FSUIPC you can map buttons to the ATC menu options, alternatively you could use the build in voice recognition.

Yes, I've been looking at FSUIPC. I think VR is now the time to take the plunge. I quite like the idea of talking to ATC.
Cheers Dave.

Just so you're clear, the voice recognition is built into p3d, not fsuipc!

DaveG wrote: ↑

03 May 2020, 15:04

Just so you're clear, the voice recognition is built into p3d, not fsuipc!

Blimey. Their best kept secret. I'll investigate. Thanks.

It's not documented very well. You need to edit the p3d.cfg to enable it. I'm not at the pc at the moment, but there is a line that reads "enable voice control" or similar. Set that to 1 and save. There's a limited number of voice controls by default but more can be added by editing the voice control phrases cfg file.

After a bit of googling I came across this example;

prepar3d.cfg

[STARTUP]
DEMO=0
STARTUP_DEMO=
LOAD_SCENARIO_TOOLS=1
LoadCorePlugins=1
LoadVirtualReality=1
EnableVirtualRealityOnStartup=0
EnableVoiceControl=1
LoadWindow=1

open Air Traffic Control, ATC, .9
close Air Traffic Control, ATC, .9
select option one, ATC_MENU_1, .9
select option two, ATC_MENU_2, .9
select option three, ATC_MENU_3, .9
select option four, ATC_MENU_4, .9
select option five, ATC_MENU_5, .9
select option six, ATC_MENU_6, .9
select option seven, ATC_MENU_7, .9
select option eight, ATC_MENU_8, .9
select option nine, ATC_MENU_9, .9
select option ten, ATC_MENU_0, .9

Seems the only tricky bit is getting P3D to respond to voice.
May have to turn windows voice off?

I've used the voice recognition quite a bit. It does work pretty well. You may need to run though the built in Windows voice recognition training first though.

I've long wanted to look into voice control and this might be the impetus to finally do so. However, I'm less concerned with P3D default commands as much as I am commanding the functions of the RFN [carrier] gauge. Does anyone know if it is generally possible to command third party addons in this way, before I sink time into it?

Many thanks

Andy

You can only use the built in voice recognition to trigger standard P3d commands, so controlling custom gauges would be a no go I think. You may be able to do it with additional software like "voice attack" if you can assign key presses to the functions though.