Gotcha Robbo.
Thought you were banging your head at me.
I guess you were banging your head at the game
I have edited my main cfg TC settings.
I think the game defaults to 8 tc when spotting enemies.
I changed it to 1.
This seems to allow the 'Ship Spotted' speech file to play. Well, about 50% of the time anyway.
It still seems a bit buggy.
Plus it gives me a chance to spot I've dropped to 1 TC and investigate.
Might be worth a go.
The reason I mentioned the travel mode button first is because that's how I nearly got myself killed today!