Audio Cues

Record > Recorder Settings > Audio Cues

Gaggle includes a built-in voice assistant that can read out useful flight information while you are recording. The current Audio Cues page lets you test the voice, enable or disable announcements, choose a voice, control call behaviour, and fine-tune what gets announced automatically.

Spoken announcements are included with Frequent Flyer and Adventurer. Power Line Warnings needs Adventurer.

The spoken cues described here stay silent on a location-masked competition flight. The GPS connection lost alert is not one of these cues and can still be spoken. Organisers’ notices show on screen instead. See Competition flight screen.

Variometer tones and directional lift sound

Climb and sink tones, the early lift cue, and binaural Directional lift sound are configured separately under Record > Recorder Settings > Variometer. Use that page’s Try the cues demo to learn their sounds before recording; the Demo on this Audio Cues page tests the spoken voice.

With Lift Assist enabled and Adventurer access, directional climb audio can suggest where stronger observed lift lies through stereo headphones. It uses tones rather than spoken turn instructions. See Variometer for setup, plan access, and headphone limits, and Thermal Assist for the visual guidance.

Main settings

• Demo plays a sample announcement so you can confirm the voice and volume before takeoff.
• Enabled turns spoken announcements on or off for the recorder.
• Voice lets you choose the assistant voice used on this device.
• Pause during calls stops callouts while you are on a phone call.
• Volume adjusts Gaggle’s own cue volume, but your phone’s media volume still matters as well.

Installing more voices

Gaggle uses the text-to-speech voices that are installed on your phone. If the voice you want is not shown under Voice, install or download it in your device settings first, then return to Gaggle and open the voice list again.

On iPhone:

1. Open the iOS Settings app.
2. Go to Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices.
3. Choose a language.
4. Download the voice you want to use.
5. Return to Gaggle and go to Record > Recorder Settings > Audio Cues > Voice.
6. Select the voice and use Demo to confirm it works before flying.

On Android:

1. Open the Android Settings app.
2. Search for Text-to-speech output or go to Accessibility > Text-to-speech output.
3. Confirm your preferred speech engine is selected.
4. Open that engine’s settings and install the voice or language pack you want.
5. Return to Gaggle and go to Record > Recorder Settings > Audio Cues > Voice.
6. Select the voice and use Demo to confirm it works before flying.

Gaggle shows English voices and voices that match your device language. If a newly installed voice still does not appear, restart Gaggle after the download finishes and confirm the phone’s language or text-to-speech engine can play that voice outside Gaggle.

Automatic announcements

The current Automatic Announcements section includes controls such as:

• Recorder Status
• Recording Status
• Flight Time
• Fuel Level
• Sunset
• Aircraft Warnings
• Power Line Warnings
• Airspaces

Enable the items you want to hear during flight, and disable the ones that would be distracting for your setup.

Interval announcements

The Interval Announcements section lets you choose both the announcement interval and which values should be read on that timer. The current options include:

• Altitude
• Ground Speed
• Wind
• Waypoint

This is useful if you want a recurring spoken status update without having to look down at the screen.

Traffic and warning announcements

Under Automatic Announcements, a few items have their own options:

• Airspace Advisories lets you pick No announcement, a concise announcement when you enter an advisory, or a detailed one that also gives the recommended action when available. Advisories stay on your map even when audio is off.
• Aircraft Warnings announces aircraft on an intersection course with your flight path. Choose how much is spoken, or No announcement.
• Warning Repeat Interval sets the minutes before an aircraft on an intersecting course is announced again. Use the minus and plus buttons to change it.
• Announce All Traffic also announces other aircraft flying near you, not only those on an intersection path.
• Only In Flight keeps traffic announcements off until you are airborne. It is on by default.
• Power Line Warnings (Adventurer plan) warns you about nearby power lines that Gaggle knows about when you fly close to the ground.

Task guidance cues

If you fly a task, open Task Guidance Cues at the bottom of the Audio Cues page. It has two switches, both on by default:

• Start of speed section guidance counts down to the start of the speed section and tells you when the start gate is open. After it opens, it counts down to the next start gate you can still wait for.
• Final Glide Cues tells you whether your final glide margin is positive or negative, and the altitude to climb to when it is negative.

These cues work alongside the other announcements. They are silent on a location-masked competition flight, like all other spoken cues.

Knock Detection

Knock-triggered controls are not part of the Audio Cues page. They live under:

Record > Recorder Settings > Gestures > Knock Detection

Knock the screen with your knuckles to trigger an action without looking down. The page has:

• Knock Detection switch, which turns knock detection on or off.
• A tap sensitivity slider, shown while knock detection is on.
• Three switches, one for each knock count. The action for each count is fixed.

You cannot assign different actions to the knock counts. Turn off a count if you do not want it to react.

Knock detection needs the same plan as spoken announcements.

Tips

• Use Demo while changing volume so you can hear the exact output level you will get in flight.
• If announcements seem quiet, also raise the phone’s media volume while the demo or a cue is playing.
• If you regularly take calls while tracking, keep Pause during calls enabled to avoid overlapping audio.