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

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

Why not create your own?
Either get someone you know with a good voice to record them on your PC then just save them in .ogg format (Audacity is one free sound recording prog that can do this) or you could download a text to speech prog, use MS Word's in-built text reader, or even try the Loquendo TTS demo page http://actor.loquendo.com/actordemo/default.asp?page=id&language=en.
Again, just record the output and save as .oggs.

BodgerBaz · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:13 am Post subject:

Thanks for that Andy.

I've now managed to create the ogg formatted files from the original data.chk. All I need to do now is wait for a wet Sunday afternoon to create the individual Specs 30, Specs 40 etc as I'm currently using the only one I have ("Specs") for all speeds.

tonyfly · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Posts: 1

I use tomtom6 for palm, i download the tomtom6 for ppc which seems working allright for my palm tomtom6, great works, thanks very much!

OrangeJuiceMan · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks to all concerned for the work and the words that pointed me/us in the direction of the .ogg files option. The results are wonderful ! Now my lad has got his g/f to record custom warnings in her sexiest voice ....

D'ya think there'd be a market .....?

OJM
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Micku · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 10, 2006 Posts: 1

Good evening

Copied .ogg files to root menu of my E61, switched off/on TomTom6 didn't pick up the file so I could change the warning?

Thanks for any help Embarassed

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: .ogg files on Nokia E61

thebinman · Banned Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 770

It's a shame the spoken voices from here include one just mentioning the "sponsor" (don't remember which camera type/speed we miss out on) and for THAT reason I've always been happy with Rays spoken voice warnings for speed cams but sort of understand that to you now need to add the .ogg voices for each camera type/speed etc.
I've asked Ray if he's intending to put up newer voices suitable for 6.500, 6.510 & 6,520 but doesn't seem like anythings been updated for quite a while there.
My questions are:-

1) Why can't the camera warning voices from here INCLUDE applicable .ogg files already renamed etc rather than we having to go through the hoop with renaming them all.
2) Why, oh why, does one camera/speed HAVE to have the "sponsored by".

Maybe for those of us that already subscribe and therefore are entitled to download the latest camera database we would be allowed a FULL set of voices (incl the applicable .ogg files) and NOT one with the rather silly and annoying "sponsored by" voice?

cgoldspink

Hi guys have just bought TT 510 and uploaded your POI warnings and the custom sound files however i can only seem to assign a general sound to each camera type and not the type and the speed!? any ideas??

thanks
Chris

Oldboy

oldfogy · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

Just a guess as I don't know the 510, but have you put the sound files in the correct folder/place?
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cgoldspink · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: TT510 GPS warnings

Thanks for your replys
I was just going thru my reply and found that you have a speed zoned cam listing, now installed that and seems to work ok now.

I had installed the consolidated camera version

Perhaps put on http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-poi-alerts.php that would be necessary to download the speed zoned camera download and assign the sounds to those.

thanks for a nudge even though you perhaps didnt know it!
chris

oldfogy · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: Re: TT510 GPS warnings

kevings178 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 25

hi new to all of this have downloaded voices for the camaras but do not know how to install them on my tomtom go700 any and all advice will be great many thanks
kivings 178

gadget_sa · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

kevings178 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 25

thanks for your fast reply these are the voices i have downloaded and the format do i just copy/paste these to the map folder or do i need to do something else with them

Beep 1 Gatso
Beep 2 Gatso 30
Beep 3 Gatso 40
Beep 4 Gatso 50
Beep 5 Gatso 60
Bell 1 Gatso 70

Bell 2 Mobile
Bell 3 Mobile 30
Boing Mobile 40
Bugle Mobile 50
Cow Mobile 60
Cuckoo Mobile 70

Polite 1 Red light

Polite 2 Specs

Polite 3 Temporary

2852_new.data.chk

7690_new.data.chk

as i said i am new to this and as all of these files are unreadable on my computer i do not want to make mess of my tomtom
the software on tomtom is as below

6.520 7690
GPS v1.21 Boot 4.86
Western Europ[e Map v606.0
hope this is valid information as i do not know what else to add
many thanks kevings178

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