Silent Directions

doublehard · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:20 am Post subject: Silent Directions

Does anyone know if there's a way to turn of the voice directions, I want to leave the sound on for my Speed camera warnings.
A lot of the time I know roughly where I'm going and would be happy just glancing at the screen from time to time. I find the ETA function very useful and just this a lot.

I've read around and there seems to be lots of interesting ways of achieving this but I can't get ant to work.

I've tried deleting a relevent .chk file then trying to select it, but it disapears of the menu. I then created a blank .chk file and renamed it, tried selecting this but the TT said it was an invalid voice file..... any other ideas????

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:30 am Post subject:

Have yo tried deleting a dataxx.chk file but leaving the related .vif file on the SD card?
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doublehard · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:52 am Post subject:

Yep, I deleted data00.chk and left the dan.vif file behind. I then went into select voice and the "Dansk Brigitte" option had gone.

I got this info from a thread by you, cheers

doublehard · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

no-one knows then???

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

Yes it can be done. You could make a new voice file using one empty ogg file for all the direction commands and switch to that voice when you only want poi warnings.
Haven't done it myself yet but if you search the posts you will find lots of info

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

Yep it can be done. I made a 1 sec empty wav file ,convertted it to a ogg. Copied it several times and renamed all the files turn left.ogg right etc and used viftool to make the vif and chk files.
Once the files are copied onto the sd card you have a new voice you can select which is silent.

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=16637&highlight=making+voice+files

Wishlist · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 160

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

No problem you can download it from here for now.

http://www.rayflanagan.co.uk/voice.zip

planning to build a few web pages with downloads links some time in the near future.

HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

Tis web site is bleedin topper Smile

I am having such fun reading and following the post etc. well done to the creators/moderators of this site

doublehard · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:

Just downloaded the files, will try it out latter. Thanks again.

Mkuk0 · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

Excellent idea Rayflan, thanks for posting the download. I D/L'd it with excitement, but when I loaded it up and tried it, I had a little problem. Although all the speech is now silent(so far so good) everytime I approach a roundabout I get EVERY POI warning chime going off at once. Since I live in Milton Keynes, this is no joke! Any ideas??

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

"I get EVERY POI warning chime going off at once"
Not sure what you mean ?
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Mkuk0 · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:27 am Post subject:

Sorry sir, what I meant was, the cuckoo noise I set for Tescos Cafes, the Polite chime I set for airfields, and the 'Star Trek' Siren I set for speed cameras, all sound off at the same time, ansd always when approaching a roundabout. Hope that is a bit clearer.

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mrlownotes · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 13, 2005 Posts: 18

Hi Rayflan, I also downloaded your files for silent voice in anticipation.
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Oo Er missus. The silent voice choice works fine. All is well until the first safety camera warning then unfortunately I get partially muted bells in place of every direction instruction. Sad

It's a great idea and I admire and respect your effort, but I've removed the files again. May give them another try when I've upgraded my GB map. I'm using TomTomGo Original upgraded to V5 on the original GB Map. Do your files work on V5.
Keep Up the good work.
Regards..........

Snig · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject:

The problems with silent voices are new to V5. For some reason the buffer isn't being initialised correctly so, if the clip for the silent instruction isn't long enough to clear a previous instruction (or warning bell), you still catch the end of it.

I had this problem with a silent voice file I'd made. I fixed it by saving 1 second of silence for each instruction rather than empty wav files. You can achieve a 90% fix by just doing this for "After" - as soon as you get an instruction that begins "After..." the buffer gets cleaned out.

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Mark.

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