reported Training missions: instructor's voice inaudible

Redglyph · December 17, 2016

DCS 1.5.5.60314.211

The volume of the instructor's voice should be increased, it's very low and inaudible over the engine.

It is said that if the user can't hear the instructor, he may turn down the "World" or the "In-Cockpit" volume, but (1) it's not enough even lowering those within acceptable limits, (2) it's not a good idea to change the overall settings and make it worse for other missions and modules when it's possible to simply speak louder.

I also tried with the "Hear like helmet" but it's not enough either, the voice volume is simply too low.

razo+r · December 17, 2016

You could lower the in cockpit sound to the minimum and raise the other settings

since you can adjust that ingame, you just have to remember the settings you had and if you made the training reset those

EntropySG · December 17, 2016

edit sry didnt read properly, was trying to help

Edited December 17, 2016 by EntropySG

Redglyph · December 17, 2016

It seems neither of you has read my post, probably just the title :rolleyes:

Anyway, it's possible to simply adjust the gain in the .ogg file, for example with a tool like xrecode2. Works perfectly and no need to record them again, I suggest to do that to fix the problem.

Art-J · December 17, 2016

Red, You have to make much longer thread titles, with all relevant info already in them, because, clearly, some guys don't bother with reading the actual posts on this forum :D :D :D.

Redglyph · December 17, 2016

So that's what I've been doing wrong all this time :D

And a 5-word summary in the post, of course ;)

Duck21 · December 27, 2016

Same here, that voice volume is way too low, can't understand the guy with anything else then idle thrust.

Yes one COULD try and lower certain audio settings, but that really doesn't fix the problem, does it ;)

razo+r · December 28, 2016

I tried it and it's a nope, nothing really helps

Captain Orso · December 28, 2016

In the P-51D tutorials right at the start they advise, if you have trouble hearing the voice of the tutorial instructor to "turn down the WORLD and IN-COCKPIT sound sliders in the Options menu".

Since a few updates ago, this can now be done without ending the mission :thumbup:

Redglyph · December 28, 2016

As said multiple times above, this isn't a good solution unfortunately.

Captain Orso · December 28, 2016

Turning down the World and In-Cockpit volume levels is a functioning work-around. If you turn them down far enough you will easily be able to hear the tutorial speaker's voice. After completing the tutorial, turn the World and In-Cockpit volumes up to your desired levels.

It might be that it would be better were the tutorial voice lauder, but being that there is a usable work-around, I imagine ED will not put a terribly high priority on changing it.

Redglyph · December 28, 2016

Yeah, for sure they won't give that any priority if some claim it is a good work-around ;)

Even by setting everything down, it's barely audible most of the time. Not sure why others and I have to repeat that so many times. Maybe those who have lowered the other sounds so much can't hear us anymore :D

Anyway, I'm happy to provide the corrected ogg files if that helps, it takes a few seconds to do it.

Double Dutch · May 29, 2021

3 years later and it is still inaudible!!

(and I am actually sitting quite far from my screen so I can't read the text )

Edited May 29, 2021 by Double Dutch

Redglyph · June 19, 2021

If I remember well, some of the words were very strangely pronounced too, so I suppose it's worth redoing the audio anyway.

It's nice the engine now sounds much more convincing, that's the most important after all.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Redglyph

GoodHope · June 26, 2021

So I just went from using a USB headset to using a 3.5mm jack headset and now suddenly I can't hear the instructor voices. I can't even hear Wags' voice overs in the quick missions (I'll fight anyone who tries to silence Wags). I've set the World and In-Cockpit sounds from 50% to Zero--nothing, Nada, zilch. I switched to the 3.5mm jack because it is the ONLY way to get my buttkicker to work (I've tried EVERYTHING and the story is too long so it doesn't belong in this thread). This is really frustrating...

NineLine · July 22, 2021

Hey guys, while I dont think the volumes are horrible, they are not great, and I can understand where the accent might throw it as well. So with that, I have requested that we re-do the Spitfire training missions after the Mossie is out the door. We have new guys doing missions and such, so I think we can improve on all aspects of training here.

Thanks!