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These make a pleasant change from the "BingBong", siren alert, or whatever one chooses, and of course it's handy to know WHAT type of camera is ahead. HOWEVER (and this may sound a little "ungrateful", but clock it as "constructive feedback").
The voice that tells the TYPE of camera, isn't really that loud
I am sure I am not alone in this thought, but I feel the voice warning (of the camera type) could do with being "tweaked up a little"
The unit volume could be increased of course, but then the overall guidance would be too loud.
Just my three penneth
Cheers
NB/ If you load the VOICE camera warnings, and play in demo mode, they sound okay, and the camera type is quite audible. When used in a "real" situation, then the voice warnings aren't all that clear.. _________________ HTC OneX (IceCreamSandwich), HTC DesireHD (Gingerbread) Co-Pilot Premium, GoogleMaps+CamerAlert352
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Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:
Can I ask if this is one particular voice set or all of them?
I ask because I took all of the available voices I could collect and "re-mastered" them, using tone equalisation, compression and gain normalisation tools in a sound editing program (Adobe Audition) to make them as loud as technically possible without distortion.
But is always possible I missed one...
Re-reading your post, it seems to say that it is one of the voice-sets for the "consolidated by type" version of the camera database.
Can you post again to say exactly what files you are using.
Thanks
The voice downloaded, and tried, is the PocketGPSWorld 'Computer Voice' version (with the bing bong at the front, and the CONSOLIDATED type,as you are aware.
I opened one of the ogg files with wavepad (www.nch.com.au/wavepad), and tried tweaking the gain, and amplify, to no avail. Didn't seem to make much difference :-(
At home, in DEMO mode, the camera ident is quite clear, but when motoring the cam ID is barely "legible"/very quiet :-(
Hope this helps.
Cheers
NB Vehicle driven Vaux Vectra 54 plate, so not as if it's an old noisey car (no disrespect to those with old noisey cars!!) :-) _________________ HTC OneX (IceCreamSandwich), HTC DesireHD (Gingerbread) Co-Pilot Premium, GoogleMaps+CamerAlert352
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Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject:
Hi, I've had a look at the files mentioned and as you've found, there's not any more gain available, but that voice uses a pretty old text to speech engine, that isn't very good quality, so it could be just the intelligibility rather than the actual level. Maybe tweaking the equalisation of just the word part to give it more treble might help you, but I'm surprised you say it is VERY much quieter than the navigation.
Unfortunately, as I blew up my TT yesterday, I'm not in a position to try it on my system!
Any one else able to try it?
Maybe its worth trying one of the other voices, to see if that's better for you? It should just install straight over the top of the old one without going through any set-up.
I shall try one (or two) of the other voices, and see what the reults are like, and let you know.
I did (with Wavepad) try tweaking just the voice part of the file, but it didn't seem to make a great deal of difference, and then the voice became distorted :-(
I'll let you kinow the results, when I've downloaded another voice, and tried in a "real situation".
Current navigation voice John Cleese, and a fried uses a female voice file (standard TomTom), and he had the same result, in fact it was he that first reported the file seemed "not too legible".
On a recent trip to Belgium and France, I find that I have the boring TomTom speed cam alerts whilst there. I had downloaded the Liz files for use in the UK, and they work (UK) admirably.
If I use the same files for the EUROPEAN cams, but copy/paste then rename them FROM :-
pocketgps_uk_gatso.ogg
To
pocketgps_eur_gatso.ogg
Will these work whilst in Europe?
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:
If you use our European database then yes, they won't work with TomTom's own European camera files. However, don't overlook the KMH/MPH issue! _________________ Darren Griffin
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:
kevinx wrote:
If I use the same files for the EUROPEAN cams, but copy/paste then rename them FROM :-
pocketgps_uk_gatso.ogg
To
pocketgps_eur_gatso.ogg
Will these work whilst in Europe?
They certainly will...
Incidentally, if you were to start using the speed-zoned version, there is now a set of voice warnings in km/h made by Mike Alder (not Liz unfortunately, but a text-to speech voice from the Go910). They aren't on the ogg collection page yet ('cos I've not done the work on them yet ) but if you can find the post about them, I'm sure Mike will send you a copy.
With regard to the "speed zone cams", I prefer to use the UNspeed zoned warnings, feeling that the speed zone cams give a "false sense of security".
If there is just a warning of cameras, it makes one more concious of checking the "local" speed. If they are speed zoned, (and the speed has changed) then it can lead to that false sense of security, followed by a speeding violation . They are my thoughts anyhow
Cheers once again for your response. _________________ HTC OneX (IceCreamSandwich), HTC DesireHD (Gingerbread) Co-Pilot Premium, GoogleMaps+CamerAlert352
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If you use our European database then yes, they won't work with TomTom's own European camera files. However, don't overlook the KMH/MPH issue!
Sorry Darren, I missed this post of yours. I DO use the PocketGPS database (UK and Europe). (Superior to those of TomTom cam warnings)
What I meant in my posting, is that I only hear the TomTom warnings and not the ogg files. After confirming with the group, I WILL need to copy, paste, and change file names of the ogg files, to pocketgps_eur_gatso.ogg
Cheers for your feedback.
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