Patent ID: 8638239

Claim:
A system for managing audio warning messages in an aircraft, comprising: a plurality of monitoring systems; and a central broadcasting module, to which each of the monitoring systems is connected, wherein each of the monitoring systems is configured to detect establishment of at least one warning condition and to send to the central broadcasting module, via a digital communication medium, at least one broadcast request comprising an identification information item for a detected warning condition, and wherein the central broadcasting module is configured to broadcast a new audio warning message corresponding to the detected warning condition, the central broadcasting module including: determining circuitry configured to determine at least one priority warning condition among warning conditions detected by the monitoring systems; generating circuitry configured to generate the new audio warning message, which corresponds to the at least one determined priority warning condition, for broadcast; at least one configuration file that associates, for each warning condition capable of being detected by the monitoring systems: an information item for identification of the warning condition, an audio definition of a message for generating at least one audio warning message corresponding to the warning condition, and a priority information item, on the basis of which the central broadcasting module determines the priority warning condition; determining circuitry configured to determine advisability of superposing the new audio warning message and a concomitant audio warning message according to a nature of each of the two audio warning messages indicated in the at least one configuration file; and superposing circuitry configured to superimpose the two audio warning messages according to a determination by the determining circuitry that one of the two audio warning messages is a sound type audio warning message and the other of the two audio warning messages is a synthesis type audio warning message.