Air-traffic controller voices made synthetic.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech Talk

A dacel, an Australian supplier of air traffic-control systems has incorporated a text-to-speech technology--called rVoice--that simulates the voices of human controllers.

The rVoice was developed by Rhetorical Inc., based in Scotland. The software will provide synthesized voices to create realistic narratives for a wide range of scenarios that air-traffic controllers might encounter, such as equipment failures and emergency landings.

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