Voice checklist

qqwertz · June 28, 2012

This is a little LUA script to have checklists displayed item by item in FSX and also having it spoken by a text-to-voice program. The script recognizes the plane and loads the corresponding checklist. Sound can be switched on or off. Currently PMDG Jetstream 41, Beechcraft 1900D and 737 900NGX as well as RealAir Beech Turbine Duke and Wilco CRJ 700 NG are recognized. You can download the script at

http://canadiandomestic.ca/goodies.php

Pete Dowson · June 28, 2012

This is a little LUA script to have checklists displayed item by item in FSX and also having it spoken by a text-to-voice program.

Thanks for this. Ingenious. The things folks can do with Lua never cease to amaze me.

BTW the link on your page for SayStatic sems to be broken. I found it at

http://code.google.com/p/raptor-chess-interface/downloads/detail?name=SayStatic.exe&can=2&q=

Regards

Pete

qqwertz · June 29, 2012

Hi Pete,

thanks for the link. Indeed the original link I included wasn't working anymore. I have changed it to your link, the binaries from both sources are identical.

Cheers,

Peter

flying_bob · February 24, 2013

Well I have used this to great effect and all is working. I do not use this however with the sound/voice.

I just step through the lines.

So in my Lua file I have the following section


preflightItems = {"Pre-flight inspection: Complete",
"Passenger brief: Complete",
"Seats, belts and harnesses: Adjusted and On",
"Brakes: TEST AND SET",
"Avionics Master Switch: OFF",
"Electrical Equipment, Autopilot: OFF",
"Circuit breakers: In",
"Fuel tank control: ON"}
[/CODE]

each item end at the ", at the end of each line. In this case I have 8 items that must be stepped through 8 times. I have read that you can use a n\ and that will give a new line, but I dont know how to do this so that I can have 4 items displayed at a time.

What I want is the first step should display the following 4 lines

[CODE]
Pre-flight inspection: Complete
Passenger brief: Complete
Seats, belts and harnesses: Adjusted and On
Brakes: TEST AND SET
[/CODE]

and when I press h again to advance to the next step it should give me the next 4 lines

[CODE]
Avionics Master Switch: OFF
Electrical Equipment, Autopilot: OFF
Circuit breakers: In
Fuel tank control: ON
[/CODE]

I tried something like this, but it do not work

[CODE]
preflightItems = {"Pre-flight inspection: Complete
n\ Passenger brief: Complete
n\ Seats, belts and harnesses: Adjusted and On
n\ Brakes: TEST AND SET",
"Avionics Master Switch: OFF
n\ Electrical Equipment, Autopilot: OFF
n\ Circuit breakers: In
n\ Fuel tank control: ON"}
[/CODE]

Any ideas how to accomplish this to display 4 items below each other and each item in its own line.

Pete Dowson · February 24, 2013

Any ideas how to accomplish this to display 4 items below each other and each item in its own line.

Did you intend "n\" to mean new line (which would be \n)? The escape character is \, not n. The letter 'n' is just the letter 'n', and "\ " would be just space I think.

Pete

flying_bob · February 25, 2013

Thank you sir.

this work 100%.

" Load and baggage: SECURED \n Cabin Door: CLOSED and LOCKED \n Centre of Gravity: CHECKED \n Emergency Exit: SECURED and UNLOCKED",

the displayed window show


 Load and baggage: SECURED
 Cabin Door: CLOSED and LOCKED
 Centre of Gravity: CHECKED
 Emergency Exit: SECURED and UNLOCKED
[/CODE]

ricky74 · May 12, 2015

I found this topic finding out a way To write down a simple plugin to display transparent window with my checklist items.

This is what I want to do:

1) display in a transparent window every single checklist (pre-flight, afterstart, taxi and so on...)

2) cycle trought every checklist pushing a key when completed

I only need to display the checklist, without using sound and without flag every single item, I need it for fs2crew voice control purpose.

So does someone have an idea which code I have to edit/modify to display it?

flyultimate · August 9, 2015

This is a wonderful program to both utilize and listen to. It's nice to have an active First Officer in the cockpit.

Thanks for this program.

Jim

ricky74 · February 29, 2016

Hi guys,could someone help me in this simple (not for me) steps?

I'd like to simplify the script, I need only to display the single checklist in a LUA display and scroll through the various checklist with a keypress or button.

Do you think that is possible?

This is an example:

PRE-FLIGHT checklist
1) item
2) item
3) item
....

when finish al the checklisy press a control key/button to switch to the next checklist

BEFORE START
1) item
2) item
3) item
.....

when finish again press the button for the next checklist.

I'd like to use this script with FS2Crew, so I don't need text-to-speech function, but only a windows that display the single single checklist (with all item expanded) and can go to the next one via key/button.

Thanks so much for your help in advance,

Ric

Arndt777 · December 3, 2016

Hello Pete,

I tried to locate the SayStatic program on http://code.google.com/p/raptor-chess-interface/downloads/detail?name=SayStatic.exe&can=2&q=, but I didn't found it. Can you help me out?

Kind regards

Arndt

Pete Dowson · December 3, 2016

2 hours ago, Arndt777 said:

I tried to locate the SayStatic program on http://code.google.com/p/raptor-chess-interface/downloads/detail?name=SayStatic.exe&can=2&q=, but I didn't found it. Can you help me out?

Have you tried Google? It isn't my program and I don't use it. Sorry, I can't keep track of other folks programs. I would have to search for you, but i think you should do that yourself, don't you?

Pete

Arndt777 · December 3, 2016

Sorry to bother you, Pete. Of course I had made a Google search before questioning in the forum.

ThomasAH · December 3, 2016

It is no longer available for download.

The original source is on krolik.net, but no longer available either.

But archive.org to the rescue:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121104113038/http://krolik.net/wsvn/wsvn/public/?rev=0&sc=0

Then click on the "Tarball" link for "Say++", which includes SayStatic.exe, sources, etc.

If you do not have tar available, I think 7zip can extract .tar.gz files, too.

Arndt777 · December 3, 2016

Thank you, Thomas! Much appreciated!

(oder auf gut Deutsch: Vielen Dank, Thomas!)

SkyCamel · December 21, 2016

I just stumbled on this wonderful program and I was wondering if it would be possible to let it use a voice response like check, set, ... instead of a keystroke to continue the checklist?

Unfortunately, I do not have any programming skills.

Cheers,

Luc

Sabrefly · January 25, 2017

On 12/21/2016 at 4:13 PM, SkyCamel said:

I just stumbled on this wonderful program and I was wondering if it would be possible to let it use a voice response like check, set, ... instead of a keystroke to continue the checklist?

Unfortunately, I do not have any programming skills.

Cheers,

Luc

great idea for so many non-fs2crewed planes.

Dirk.

ckovoor · July 10, 2020

On 12/21/2016 at 6:43 PM, SkyCamel said:

I just stumbled on this wonderful program and I was wondering if it would be possible to let it use a voice response like check, set, ... instead of a keystroke to continue the checklist?

I have created Voice-Interactive Checklists (using Windows Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech facilities) for a variety of airplanes in FSX, though not by using this LUA script, but using a third party freeware: VoiceMacro. For details please visit: https://voicemacro.net/ and then proceed to my post in the VoiceMacro forums at: https://voicemacro.net/ForumVM/discussion/405/flight-simulator-co-pilot-for-cockpit-checklists-fsx-and-windows-7-x64#latest

Checklists and Profiles I have already created for some common aircraft are referenced here:

PMDG B747-400: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/pmdg-747-queen-of-the-skies-ii-forum/71104-voice-interactive-checklists-for-the-b747-400-qots-ii

PMDG B737-800 NGX: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/pmdg-737-ngx/75062-voice-interactive-checklists-for-pmdg-b737-800-ngx

PMDG MD-11: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/pmdg-legacy-products/67885-voice-interactive-checklists-for-the-pmdg-md-11

SimCheck A300B4: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/154190-voice-interactive-checklists-for-simcheck-a300b4/&tab=comments#comment-986217

Flight One ATR72-500: http://atr.flight1.net/forums/voiceinteractive-checklists-for-flight1-atr72500_topic6739.html?SID=10078-f5dc6bdea27f27a7bdf42075462963

Flight Sim Labs A320 X: https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/25728-voice-interactive-checklists-for-fslabs-a320x/

Majestic Dash 8 Q400: http://majesticsoftware.com/forums/discussion/793/voice-interactive-checklists-for-mjc8-q400

Level D B767-300: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/51bgejl2j83anjf/AACmtjJDcMbJBLvvcTL7oJMwa?dl=0

PMDG B777-200: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/pmdg-777-forum/71229-voice-interactive-checklists-for-pmdg-b777-200

Chakko Kovoor.

Edited July 28, 2020 by ckovoor
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