Spoken POI alerts for TomTom GO, Mobile, PocketPC and Palm

lettice · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 8

Just bought a Tomtom GO 300
It came with v5.0 software, so updated to 5.2 from TT website

Put the Safety Camera database on it and the spoken POI alerts
Used the POI soundpathcher to organise the alerts.

Works a treat!

Thanks guys for the good work you are doing here.

Jon

Skater · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject:

Help! I can’t get the voice warnings to work.
I got a Tom Tom Go running v5.2 and I downloaded file 5244, copied the data files on my SD card to my hard drive of which there are four named: DATA, DATA04, DATA05, & COPY of DATA05, then I dragged 5244 onto the card & renamed it data.chk, still got the bells & whistles, am I missing something here?

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

Skater · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:37 am Post subject:

Thank 4 that Ray, I'll try again.

Regards, Paul.

Skater · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

Hi Ray,

Just to let you know, I got the voices on to my Tom Tom.

What it was, the file I needed to replace was just named “DATA” (no extension) so I deleted that & named the new file the same.

Works real good! although a more familiar accent would have been nice.

Cheers mate,
Paul.

lbendlin · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

the file is still called data.chk however the Pocket PC File explorer is hiding extensions. Use the ActiveSync Explorer instead (or Resco Explorer etc).
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MKontic · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 19

I've followed the instructions for replacingthe said file... but failed at the first hurdle - I can't find a file called data.chk anywhere. I've found a data05.chk and tried replacing this, but it made no difference. Could it be called something else? The data05.chk was found in My Device/Tomtom; no other files of a similar name exist anywhere in either main memory or on the SD card.

Can someone help please... I want to get rid of the damned bells, whistles, horns and cuckoos that TomTom seem to think people want! Have they never heard of CheckPoint??? Or did they just think that no one used it??? A little naive on their part!

I have TTN5 for PPC, and i've downloaded the correct file.

PLEASE HELP :-/

MKontic · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 19

It's ok everyone, i've sorted it. You can't do a search for files on your PPC (can you???), but I found a post a few pages back (24 pages is rather long) which says that the file data.chk can be located in Program Files/Navigator... and so it was. I replaced it and everything works fine and dandy.

One happy navigator (or is it navigatee?).

PS All I need to find now is how to create my own sounds/voices.

jo308 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 4

have just added the camera database including the separate speed categories and the voice warnings to my TomTom 700; all working fine except that there doesn't seem to be a voice warning for Gatso 70.

Thanks for a fantastic site.

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Missing voice category

MAH · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 19

Hi there,

I seem to be having problems with getting the sound files to work with the speed camera POI. The only one that I ssem to have is Mobile. How do I configure all the others. I went in the the section that shows the POI and then onto the assign sound but do not know how to assign all the other sounds to the other types of camera. Um hope this makes sense.

Mark - 2 day owner of TTG300

Oldboy

MAH · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 19

mike30 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 19

I thought the guys @ Pocket Gps World would be interested with the message I sent Friday Evening to Tomtom (I will post the reply When I get it this week, so stay tune).

"Message sent to Tomtom"
If you have got it so right with the process then how is it that Standsted Airport J8 and Braintree Essex A120 and A130 to Basildon Essex are totally incorrect? Especially when I have already well into last year reported these errors to you and still nothing has been done about them.
"Strange" but not surprising.
Oh by the way check out

http://pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=23625&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

To see how happy your customers really are.
I will not be buying any more Tomtom products in the future and will convert others to do like wise.
Yours sadly A very unhappy Customer.

By the way if they do decide to read our comments then let them have it and see how unhappy we really have been since they have "TAKEN US ALL FOR A RIDE"

MAH · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 19

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