Spoken Camera Warnings

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

I left that POI Category out of the list for a valid reason, it should never contain a camera location so there is little point in warning against something that won't be there Wink

If you open the associated ov2 file it's description reads

"dummy poi: used to clear old data"

Mike

wireplay · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 24

Any chance we can get the PocketGPS sounds in OGG format (the same sounds used in the data.chk file) as I am used to those and they are short and sweet.

I do like the Liz ones, but they are SO long winded at times...

I would like to use the new method without a hacked data.chk file you see as my Tom Tom has the latest FW which doesnt have a data.chk for it yet. I tried the most recent one and its not right on all sounds, some mess up.

mikealder · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:56 am Post subject:

If you go to THIS Page you should notice the following :

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

I promised Mike I would produce those over Xmas but got sidetracked when I started looking at all the online text to speech demos, trying to find one that matched the PGPSW voice (so I could make the missing "20" mph warnings)

Mike, do you know how the voice was generated, I'm guessing it was Lutz who sorted it out?

I'll do the basic copies and renames (as they were used) now...

wireplay - PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send them to you direct.

andy-c1 · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

thanks mikealder for the email containing the ogg files ..have finally managed to sit down and try and get it working properly .Now all i have to do is to get my work to let me subsribe to traffic
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Vegeta · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 10

I'm getting a default warning distance of 300 yards. Which is the most commonly used? 200 yards?

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:16 am Post subject:

TomTom installation HELP guide has a chart of distances against "time before passing it".

A popular choice is 20 seconds warning which works out very nearly to "ten times the speed limit" (easier to remember!) i.e. 200yards for a 20mph camera site, 300 yards for a 30mph, upto 700 yards for a 70mph.
For Mobile sites people suggest doubling these figures at least, to avoid detection before it alerts you.

TomDavison · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:23 am Post subject:

I've given up on mobile warnings. On motorways virtually every bridge in my area comes up as a mobile warning, and in the year that I have had a speed camera database, I've yet to see a mobile camera.

Madmouse · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

any chance of getting POI warner to eork with spoken voices? it's a package I used on a mio a few years ago & i've just been offered a discount to download a new version to my tomtom 510...i've downloaded software can see the default poi warner ogg files but can't get any sounds to work..any idea?

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

I've looked at the POI Warner website. What does it do that you can't do on the TomTom anyway? (for free!)

Madmouse · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

so thats why he was keen to give a discount!

d'oh!!

mikealder · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject:

The method detailed here is for using the TomTom in built POI Warner, if you want to use another package make sure the audio files are in the correct format - probably ogg is not supported, but if you change the sound files to wav they might work - use Audacity (search on the forum for Audacity to find a link) export the audio files as wav type then try your POIWarner application, like Andy says though why pay for this capability when your device is capable of doing this by default? - Mike

ojhaslam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 3

Can you use the OGG files and this methods with TT One?

Oldboy · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

mightymart · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

I have loaded on the ogg files & they only work with the gatso's ? I have checked all the files for different file names & they match the same as the gasto's, but the only warning noise I get is from the data.chk ???

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