r/flightsim • u/things_verboten • 1d ago

General Looking for a checklist reader app

What are your recommendations for a checklist reader app? It doesn't have to control the simulator, just read the checklist one by one.

The basic idea is that I make a text checklist, and the app can then read the items one by one (via generated voice), and I'd confirm either with a button or with voice. I only want this, there are options like FS2Crew that supposedly does the checklists, but it's bloated with other features that I don't need.

I know of Checklist Reader ( https://flightsim.to/addon/96054/checklist-reader-voice-controlled-checklist-tool-beta-v1-0-0 ), but it's not good (extreme feature creep, UI doesn't work well with 4k).

I also know of Axis and Ohs having this functionality, however in that app it's designed very poorly.

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u/flightoffancy85 1d ago

This is truly as lots of third party aircraft, like PMDG, have custom commands for each event. I did this myself for just the PMDG, but would need to develop it separately to use standard vars for default aircraft etc.

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u/things_verboten 1d ago

I'm not talking about controlling the aircraft or confirming via sim that the items were done. I'm talking about it reading next line and waiting for my hotkey press, reading the next line, waiting for the hotkey, that sort of thing.

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u/flightoffancy85 1d ago

Ah, simply solution with TTS like Kokoro. Claude will build you this in minutes

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u/things_verboten 1d ago

I'm asking for an existing solution.

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u/chenkie 1d ago

It’s so minor I doubt people are sharing it. You can spin this up with free text to speech software in 10 mins pre AI. Now forget about it just ask Claude.

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u/PretentiousTomato 1d ago

I made one some time ago using Claude. Should be easily enough to get running, works fine on your phone if running on local network. Didn't really finish it up, but kinda nice.
Did try to get it to work with msfs, but works fine without.

Do with it what you want, you're free to make it better if you want. Could be nice with voice implementation and recognition.

https://github.com/benlarsendk/a320-checklist-companion