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TTS Mission Interface suggestions.
Just a couple of things, not sure how doable, but I'll throw it out here.
1. The interface is super annoying during hive skirmishes
It reads off every time an NPC ship is killed, including asterisks and the bots full name including numbers. Quite literally "asterisk asterisk Kragen Ramos has been killed by Siepos Assault 947234". Would like to see such events removed. Perhaps only include the relevant data in the TTS. Pilots left warnings and when abandoning the sector or killing the queen.
2. Maybe a bug or not, but in reference to number one, there can be quite a backlog of data to be read. If it's a really busy fight then you can jump to a station, repair, and jump back and the list never stops reading off. Maybe some kind of cancel key to force it to reset? Clear the cache or something?
3. A volume adjustment for the reader. When listening to music or, God forbid, an audiobook, the voice just completely overrides everything making background applications unintelligible. I keep my in game music off and SFX set around half way so they don't overpower anything I'm listening to in the background. I'd love to see this possible with the TTS system as well.
1. The interface is super annoying during hive skirmishes
It reads off every time an NPC ship is killed, including asterisks and the bots full name including numbers. Quite literally "asterisk asterisk Kragen Ramos has been killed by Siepos Assault 947234". Would like to see such events removed. Perhaps only include the relevant data in the TTS. Pilots left warnings and when abandoning the sector or killing the queen.
2. Maybe a bug or not, but in reference to number one, there can be quite a backlog of data to be read. If it's a really busy fight then you can jump to a station, repair, and jump back and the list never stops reading off. Maybe some kind of cancel key to force it to reset? Clear the cache or something?
3. A volume adjustment for the reader. When listening to music or, God forbid, an audiobook, the voice just completely overrides everything making background applications unintelligible. I keep my in game music off and SFX set around half way so they don't overpower anything I'm listening to in the background. I'd love to see this possible with the TTS system as well.
I'd secnd all of these, mainly the final option. I lisen to di.fm but eff me if i need VC or use tts for something.
Noted. We definitely have a lot to improve in the TTS system. It also lacks any kind of music ducking right now (automatic drop in music-volume when it's speaking).
There are also some challenges in different platform implementations of TTS. Some of them you seem to feed in entire sentences, and it's unclear if you can "skip" or "cancel" after that. Others you can override by sending in the next-sentence, that kind of thing.
I imagine you guys are mainly concerned with Android, and I think we can address a lot of usability issues there. But, from our end, we're trying to make the TTS experience consistent everywhere, across all our platforms. This particularly makes maintenance easier on developers. It'd be simpler if we integrated our own TTS system, but they tend to either be pretty expensive (Amazon Ivona, etc), or open-source and kinda mediocre quality at best. Using the OS-provided option seems to be the best case for the moment.
Anyway, feel free to keep contributing any new TTS feedback or ideas into this thread, I'll check back periodically.
There are also some challenges in different platform implementations of TTS. Some of them you seem to feed in entire sentences, and it's unclear if you can "skip" or "cancel" after that. Others you can override by sending in the next-sentence, that kind of thing.
I imagine you guys are mainly concerned with Android, and I think we can address a lot of usability issues there. But, from our end, we're trying to make the TTS experience consistent everywhere, across all our platforms. This particularly makes maintenance easier on developers. It'd be simpler if we integrated our own TTS system, but they tend to either be pretty expensive (Amazon Ivona, etc), or open-source and kinda mediocre quality at best. Using the OS-provided option seems to be the best case for the moment.
Anyway, feel free to keep contributing any new TTS feedback or ideas into this thread, I'll check back periodically.