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FS2Crew Generation AI Gets a Big Airbus Update: Local AI, Super Premium Voices & More
Sep
The big Airbus update for FS2Crew Generation AI is here!
Today, we’re releasing a major update for FS2Crew Generation AI, bringing significant improvements to speech recognition, voice quality, customization, checklist reliability, and overall First Officer behavior.
This update is available for both the FS2Crew Generation AI FBW A32NX Edition and FS2Crew Generation AI Fenix Edition.
Whether you’re looking for faster speech recognition, more realistic multilingual voices, greater control over your briefings, or improved Airbus procedures, this update has something for you.
🚀 New: Local AI Speech Recognition
One of the biggest additions in this update is Local AI Speech Recognition.
FS2Crew Generation AI now gives users the option to process speech recognition locally on their own PC rather than relying exclusively on cloud-based speech recognition.
The result can be dramatically faster speech-recognition response times, depending on your hardware and system configuration.
How to enable Local AI
Getting started is simple:
- Open the Audio Settings panel in FS2Crew Generation AI.
- Download and install the Local AI Runtime.
- Restart FS2Crew Generation AI.
- Select Local AI as your speech-recognition option.
Important: Some antivirus software, including Kaspersky, may interfere with the Local AI Runtime installer. If you experience installation problems, temporarily check your antivirus settings or consult its documentation.
Local AI is particularly exciting for users with modern gaming PCs because it can provide a much more responsive voice-control experience while reducing reliance on an internet connection for speech recognition.
⭐ New Super Premium Voices
We’re also introducing our new Super Premium Voices, starting with voices such as Stephanie.
These are our highest-quality voices yet and are designed to provide an even more natural and immersive First Officer experience.
Super Premium Voices are:
- Available exclusively to Voice Pack owners
- Located at the bottom of the Voice Pack list
- Marked with a star
- Multilingual, allowing them to communicate in multiple languages
Because these voices cost significantly more for us to provide, the price of the Voice Pack has increased.
As we continue adding additional Super Premium Voices, we may need to increase the Voice Pack price again in the future.
If you already own a Voice Pack, your existing purchase continues to give you access to the Voice Pack system and its available voices.
🎙️ New: Open Microphone Mode
We’ve also added an Open Mic Mode option.
This gives users another way to interact with FS2Crew’s speech-recognition system and provides greater flexibility for pilots who prefer a more continuously available microphone experience.
✈️ Custom Thrust Reduction Height & Minimums
We’ve added greater flexibility to the Approach and Departure Briefings.
You can now enter custom text values for:
- Thrust Reduction Height
- Thrust Reduction Minimums
This allows users to customize these briefing items instead of being limited to predefined values.
🗣️ Improved Number Readbacks
Number readbacks have also received an important improvement.
Numbers are now read back in a way that better matches the language of the surrounding speech.
This is particularly important for users flying with multilingual voices and helps make communications sound more natural and consistent.
✅ Improved Flight Controls Check
The Flight Controls Check has been improved for greater reliability.
You also no longer need to say “RUDDER” to advance the check.
This makes the procedure quicker and eliminates an unnecessary voice command from the workflow.
🛫 Line-Up Checklist Improvements
The Line-Up checklist has been updated so that it no longer checks rudder trim.
This change prevents external hardware configurations from interfering with the checklist.
For users with custom controls or hardware setups, this should result in a more predictable checklist experience.
⌨️ Improved “Use Keys When in Focus” Behavior
The Use Keys When in Focus option has also been corrected.
Previously, the option could behave incorrectly because it was tied to the FS2Crew application being in focus.
It now works when Microsoft Flight Simulator is in focus, which is where users would normally expect it to operate.
🔧 More Airbus Procedure Fixes
Along with the major new features, we’ve addressed a large number of smaller issues affecting the First Officer and Animated FO.
The update includes fixes for:
- External Power being selected when a GPU was already available during preflight
- Packs not being turned back on after acceleration altitude
- The FO becoming stuck during the walkaround when Hide Model During Walkaround was enabled
- Wing lights remaining on when parking at the gate
- Landing lights and strobes during runway crossings
- Strobes remaining in AUTO when entering the runway after the Line-Up call
- Fuel pumps not being turned off after engine shutdown
- Nose light not being set to the T/O position during landing
- Animated FO hands becoming frozen over the CDU during certain checklist situations
- Incorrect 5% pitch trim responses during the After Start checklist
- V1 and VR speeds being announced approximately 10 knots too early
- Runway Turn-Off lights not being switched on before taxi
- Various graphical user interface issues
📋 QRH Checklist Response Change
We’ve also removed the word “QRH” from checklist responses.
The reason is simple: the TTS First Officer voices were not consistently able to pronounce the acronym correctly.
Removing it produces more reliable and natural-sounding spoken checklist responses.
What’s New in FS2Crew Generation AI?
This update continues our goal of making FS2Crew Generation AI one of the most advanced AI First Officer systems available for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
With the combination of:
Local AI Speech Recognition + advanced multilingual voices + dynamic voice commands + intelligent aircraft integration + Animated FO
FS2Crew Generation AI continues to evolve well beyond a traditional checklist assistant.
The new Local AI option is particularly significant because it gives users another way to achieve extremely fast speech-recognition response times on modern PCs.
And with the introduction of Super Premium Voices, we’re continuing to push the quality of the First Officer experience even further.
Download the Latest FS2Crew Generation AI Update
The latest update is available now for:
- FS2Crew Generation AI – FBW A32NX Edition
- FS2Crew Generation AI – Fenix Edition
If you already have FS2Crew Generation AI installed, simply update to the latest version and check the Audio Settings panel for the new Local AI option.
For complete details, see the FS2Crew Generation AI Change Log and documentation.
The Big Airbus Update Is Here
This is a substantial update, but we’re not finished.
We’re continuing to improve FS2Crew Generation AI, adding new AI capabilities, improving aircraft integration, expanding multilingual support, and making the First Officer experience more realistic with every release.
Update today and experience the next generation of FS2Crew.
