Mini Airways · published
Hello, Air Traffic Controllers!
The Voice Control Mode, which has been in testing for quite some time, is finally leaving beta and becoming an official feature!
Once the update goes live, you’ll be able to use voice commands on all maps to guide your flights. (Note: Since this mode relies on Windows’ built-in speech recognition, it will not support macOS or Linux.)
In Voice Control Mode, you can directly issue commands via your microphone in Chinese or English. If recognition accuracy seems off, try training the Windows speech recognition system further in its settings.
We know many of you are excited about Voice Control, but we approach this update with some nervousness—because honestly, we couldn’t add any extra features to this mode in past few months, and we couldn’t even port it to other operating systems. For a tiny team like ours, that proved simply too difficult.
To get technical: Our voice recognition relies on an external process (a supporting library), and adapting it across OSes comes with massive hurdles. For example, macOS has complex permission policies for standalone processes, and the library itself struggles with cross-platform compatibility. Our devs fought hard but couldn’t out-bug the issues that followed.
We also looked into cloud-based AI speech recognition (which is booming these days), but as a one-time-purchase game, recurring API costs for such a service simply weren’t sustainable for us.
After months of effort, we confirmed—this is the best version we can deliver right now. It's imperfect, but we’ll keep tracking tech advancements for better solutions. If you have ideas or suggestions, we'd love to hear them!
Our main focus next will be on optimizing the mobile version and developing a new demo. As for the voice control feature, we'll come back to improve it in the future when either speech recognition technology sees new breakthroughs or our programmers gain enough technical expertise to overcome the current limitations.
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