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Amazing how bad the speech synthesis is for something so safety critical.
by IshKebab 11mo ago
Amazing how bad the speech synthesis is for something so safety critical.
- ls612 11mo ago[flagged]
- HNisCIS 11mo agoThis, if it sounds too human ATC is going to try to help and possibly provide vectors, as they should, but The way the system works, ATC needs to be prioritizing clearing the runway and keeping aircraft away
- whatsupdog 11mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 11mo agoPlease don't fulminate or introduce political flamebait on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- alwa 11mo agoThen again I understood exactly what it was saying every time, which is more than I can say for some of the other traffic on that recording. I’m not sure synthetic-sounding means bad here.
- nradov 11mo agoThe embedded systems qualified for use in general aviation avionics have very limited hardware resources. They are severely constrained by form factor, power, and cooling. It's amazing that the developers were able to get speech synthesis working so well.
- IshKebab 11mo agoI could do better than this with pre-recorded samples for each word. Especially for the phonetic alphabet. Also avionics aren't that underpowered these days. They have full touchscreen displays and multicore CPUs.
- tylergetsay 11mo agoIt doesn't appear to me to be speech synthesis but rather prerecorded messages