"RandyL"
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Nov 12, 2007, 4:35 PM
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Hi Martin,
I am certainly no expert, and this is just a guess, but it may be
spelled this way because some 3rd-party ATC utilities (like AI Smooth,
EditVoicePack, etc.) take this atc_type definition, reads it, and uses a
voice synthisizer to "read back" what it thinks the aircraft type is. By
spelling the atc type in certain ways, whatever program is reading it may do
a better job of pronouncing the name correctly phonetically than if the name
is simply spelled "...Boeing." I know that when I was fooling around with
voice synthesis on the the Commodore Amiga and the PC, I would sometimes
have to spell a word a certain way or capitalize certain letters in order
for the computer to pronounce that word correctly. Or, I could be completely
wrong, it has been known to happen. Take care...
Randy L.
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"Martin S." <ms@ms> wrote in message
news:k33hj3dcpd6han92n27u6oaprjgidk81i7@4ax.com...
>I seem to have stumped the readers of the AVSIM forums with this.
> Sometimes (often ??) you folk here do much better! The question came
> up because of 'missing' entries in EditVoicePack. This is the crux of
> my post.....................
>
> Why do many entries for atc_type in the aircraft.cfg file mix bold and
> small case letters? I've noticed this, for years in fact, but never
> really understood why this is done, or bothered to ask. For instance:
>
> atc_type=BOeiNg
>
> I am sure that there must be some good reason for the upper and lower
> case combinations. Nearly all my aircraft.cfg files show variations
> like this (BoEinG -- BOEinG etc.). Moreover, if you buy and install
> FSHotSFX (wouldn't fly without it!), the programme makes entries to
> the aircraft.cfg files, like this:
>
> OldName=BOEING
> NewName=BOeINg
>
> FSHotSFX can't be doing that for nothing... Maybe there needs to be a
> unique atc_type entry for each a/c model installed (if so, why?), but
> I didn't know entries in what is basically a text file could be case
> sensitive.
>
> Hope someone can explain exactly (or even approximately) what the
> issue is here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> (SORRY IF THIS THREAD COMES UP MORE THAN ONCE - HAVING SOME PROBLEMS
> POSTING)
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