Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One?

RyanT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 16

Hi. I'm brand new to the forum and almost new to owning a GPS TomTom One ver.3)! I don't know what I ever did without it.

I found an old thread with instructions on how you could put your own voice on a TomTom. There was a 59-command list, and a DOS tool you had to use. I actually tried that and was able to successfully get my voice onto the unit! But I am confused by a few things.

Is the 59-command list that was posted a few years ago still the right one? I ask because even though my voice seems to work, the stock American voices have commands not on that list, such as "one-half-mile," "one-quarter-mile," etc. Is it possible there is a new list?

Thanks.

Ryan

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:

Best instructions I've seen are from Graeme Lucas HERE (which has the list of 59)

There's another HERE which also refers to 59.

But on my Go720 there is actually a menu option to record your own voice instructions directly on the unit with the built in mic, but the introduction screen to that only says there are only 56 words and phrases to record.
So it looks like the list is now smaller!

RyanT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 16

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject:

Ah, didn't twig that you are actually in America.

In that case, why don't you just use the instructions in one of those guides to extract the individual sound files from one of your standard US voices?
For example:

RyanT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 16

RyanT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 16

Andy,

Now I'm REALLY confused. I did what you said, and the files that resulted were the same 59, and the audio was the same (except it said "rotary" instead of "roundabout." Anyway, I KNOW I heard all the American voices say "in one quarter mile...." etc. (using 1/2th and 1/8th as well).

I'm betting the VIF tool is only set up to deal with 59 commands, and so only pulls those same ones out when you split a .chk using it. Do you know if there is another tool out there that can pull the commands from the new TomToms? It is clear there are more than are showing up in the VIFTool Split.

Thanks.

Ryan

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:58 am Post subject:

I don't know of any other tools I'm afraid...
Thinking out of the box again....
Can you find anyone with a US x20 or x30 model, so you can
1. go through the procedure and at least find what commands a US version now uses, or
2 maybe even create a voice set that can be ported across to your unit.

TomTom's own "create your own Content" guide for voices also lists the normal 59 words and phrases.
I get to it by:
http://create.tomtom.com/manuals/create-your-own-content/

Maybe if you access that (or it's equivalent) from the US you will get a different version with a different list?

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

what about the tomtom explorer that i sent you ages ago Andy? didn't you put it in your list of add ons, I would only use it though if you have made a proper backup first using windows. you could explore the various tomtom files then and see what they contain Wink

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:30 am Post subject:

I thought that TT_Explorer was just a file manager (like Windows Explorer) that you could install on the TomTom itself.

Do you think it can do clever things like extracting the individual ogg files out of the compiled dataxx.chk file as well?

RyanT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 16

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