Tomtom One Route Question

iandrews · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 8

I have just got a Tomtom One, and so far I am very impressed. I have a quick question though. Can I set up a route, but not have the spoken directions such as turn left or turn right (without just turning the speaker off).

The reason I ask is that I have set up the camera database, now if I set the POI’s to warn when on route I get informed of the cameras on my route, but I have to set up a route and have the directions as well and this can get a bit boring when I am going somewhere that I know. Now if I set the POI’s so they detect off route I get a lot more warnings that I don’t need from nearby cameras.

If you can’t then I suppose I can have the individual speed/camera categories set to warn on route, and then also install the all in one file and set this to detect off route, and then activate this when I don’t have a route planned and de-activate this when I do.

What do others do?

Thanks,

Ian.

iandrews · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 8

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go.

Ian.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject:

There is no simple way to mute the voice but keep the alerts - it's been on the features wishlists for ages, but not implemented by TomTom yet (if ever).

The sneaky way that has been worked out is to install a "silent" voice file and switch to that. There is one on Ray's site here - [url]http://www.rayflanagan.co.uk/voice.zip [/url]

HOWEVER.....
The other day, I needed to remove a few more voices to fit something else on my card, and on my Go300 there are some "ghost" USA voices (Bonnie, Richard and Lori) that appear on the menu with a message saying they can be downloaded from the TomTom website.
If you've got those too, they can be selected like a real voice to give exactly what you want.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject:

Sorry Dan, didn't mean to ignore your reply, I was half way through writing mine but got called away, and you got in before me Smile

depsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 27

i may be missing something here..

but don't you just say clear route and the tomtom still warns you when it detects your poi's

Unplugged · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

Only if ytou have the "warn when on route ticked"

A lot of people leave it ticked sio they dont get speed camera warnings for 30mph cameras on paralell roads when there driving down a motoway at 70-100 :D

iandrews · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 8

I tried the 'ghost' voice, and it work for me to.

Thanks,
Ian.

Unplugged · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject:

My only issue with the "silent" voices are one day i hope to tie the go into the telephone muting on the radio.

It will proably get well annoying if the radio mutes every 2 seconds without any sound coming out

Noobiest · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2007 Posts: 57

I have unzipped the 4 files for silent voice.

Which ones do I need and what the heck do I do with them? 8O

Thanks

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

You want the files that end with an extension of:

.bmp
.vif
.chk

Put these in the voices folder and the device will find the voice - Mike

Noobiest · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2007 Posts: 57

Noobiest · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2007 Posts: 57

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