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Spiggy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 40
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: POI Warning Sound Volume |
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Is there any way to increase the volume on the POI warnings on a TTG 520?
Failing that, can anyone recommend where I can download some high pitch/volume sounds.
I find that although I can hear directions quite well above road noise and radio, I sometimes can't hear the speed cam warnings. |
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Anita Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 3219 Location: Windlesham, Surrey
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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How about the Liz version 2 with loud siren from here?
Edited to add: Assuming you're using the speed camera database from here and not the TomTom one! _________________ Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1130.12368
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Spiggy Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
I was really looking for just the sound without the voice, but it might be OK. With the amount of cameras inour area the voice message might nt get a chance to finish |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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The volume is set as high as possible for all the file sets, obviously some voices will "cut through" a bit better than others, so try some alternatives.
I find they are just loud enough to compare with a "normal" navigation voice" but TT have done something sneaky to get the "text to speech" navigation voices louder (but horribly distorted to my ears), so if you set the volume OK for those, any alert sound is a bit quieter still.
I have been badgering TomTom about the volume inconsistencies for ages and it is getting much worse now that we have hands free, extra mp3 players, FM transmission, TTS voices etc.
Basically there is only the one "overall" level control (except for a "hidden" one for incoming hands-free calls incoming level). This REALLY needs to change...
What I'd like to see is a simple "volumes" page (like you get on PC sound cards) with separate sliders for
Navigation Voice, Sound Effects+Warnings, Hands-Free calls, mp3 player/audio books.
The normal volume control would then adjust ONLY the volume of the internal speaker.
If you agree, I'd really appreciate it if you *and anyone else*, could complain to TomTom about it. It's the only way that anything gets done.
So far, all TT have done as a quick fix for the poor FM transmission quality, is to completely disable the volume control on the mp3 player, so whatever it LOOKS like it's doing, the volume is actually fixed at 100% |
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Spiggy Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Where is the 'hidden' one for hands free please |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Spiggy, it's not really hidden, but you might not realise its there.
When you are actually in a call, the normal-looking volume slider is actually only controlling the incoming call volume.
But if you were hoping to increase it, I'm afraid it is usually on 100% already!
Also, I've just looked back over your previous post, and saw you were after JUST a sound for your camera alerts.
If that's the case, have a listen to some of the preview demo files of the voice sets on the PGPSW sound files page (http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-ogg-files.php) and if there's a sound you like, I'll split it off the voice for you. |
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Spiggy Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the offer Andy. I'm testing the files that you suggested and they don't seem too bad (even with the voice).
Watch this space. |
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sven1 Regular Visitor
Joined: Jun 26, 2005 Posts: 131 Location: Norwich, U.K
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Andy_P wrote: |
I find they are just loud enough to compare with a "normal" navigation voice" but TT have done something sneaky to get the "text to speech" navigation voices louder (but horribly distorted to my ears), so if you set the volume OK for those, any alert sound is a bit quieter still.
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Glad its not just me. I used my 920T for first time today and thought maybe the speaker was damaged. Kate sounded quite gravelly like there was distortion or a bit like a ruptured cone in an old fashioned speaker. Other sounds seem ok tho so presume nothing wrong with speaker. Certainly didn't sound as good as TT5 on my old Ipaq. Quite prepared to lose some reading out if other voices for standard directions are better. not had time to try these yet.
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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sven1 wrote: |
Glad its not just me. I used my 920T for first time today and thought maybe the speaker was damaged. Kate sounded quite gravelly |
I eventually gave up on the "Simon" TTS voice and went back to ordinary "Tim" because of this "crunchyness" and my sensitive ears!
What I think has happened is the designers were told to "make it louder" but already had everything as loud as the design of the electronics allowed, so they've done a bodge to get the TTS voice to play TWICE at once, or out of two sound channels at once, which then get mixed together. Louder yes, but now TOO loud for the rest of the circuitry to cope with without distorting.
(No proof of this, just seems likely from some experiments I've done). |
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