DCS F-5E training missions no voice overs? - now with a mission to try

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Ever wondered why there were none? Well, there are but only in German localization :de: :wink:

I thought it was a pity (and shame!) the F-5E training missions were so silent so I decided (just for fun and to learn something new) Iā€™d make my own. It is as simple as:

  • opening the missions in Mission Editor
  • copy the text under triggers tab
  • put it through one of the free text-to-speech tools and get wav or ogg
  • assign it to the text
  • save & fly.

And then I realized that the mission structure contained also DE folder alongside Default folderā€¦ and the DE folder contained German voice overs.

Weird, isnā€™t it? :grinning:

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Thatā€™s pretty cool!

Did you make the voices male or female? Did you give them an accent?

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I am just experimenting and would call it a proof of concept - so no fancy staff.

Matthew voice from here

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Oh, theyā€™re only in German? I would never have guessed.

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I like the Radio Transmission ME feature/trigger action. You assign a frequency to it so if you are not on the correct frequencyā€¦ :open_mouth: This is fun with aircraft like the Viggen or MiG-21 where you have a couple of tactical frequencies and then airbase ATC freqs.

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I played a bit with the voice ā€œoveringā€ in Audacity and got something like this:

I think that for a free to use text-to-speech generator put through a free audio editing software it is actually not bad :sunglasses:

But thenā€¦ I am not a native speakerā€¦ soā€¦

If you fancy, go ahead and give it a try and leave some feedback. I would appreciate it :+1:

Just keep it a low profile. I have not asked a permission to repackage a F-5E training mission so I do not want to give it much publicity.

Btw. is it possible to mod an existing mission? I suppose not since a mission is basically a zip file and it is not possible to alter files within the zip fileā€¦?