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sollythegolly
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 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: TT1 New and Speed Camera Warnings |
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I regularly travel a well-known route, and have no real need of the vocie directions, and so I turn the volume down.
Unfortunately, that also turns the volume of the speed camera warning tones down as well, and as there are a lot of speed cameras on the route, the warning tones are very useful indeed.
Short of deleting the voices in total (and I do need voice directions on other journeys), does anyone know whether it is possible to configure the TT1 to provide warning alarms of speed cameras with the volume of the voice directions turned down? |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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You can't have two volumes.
But what you CAN do is have a "Silent" voice for the navigation - that way you get NOTHING for directions, but still get the noisy warnings for cameras.
Silent voice download from here. Then you change voice to the silent one. If you later need to get navigation instructions, change voice back to whoever.
(I have two Tom Toms, one for navigating and one for warnings and the warnings one has got the silent voice).
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mikealder
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Not possible to run with two different levels of volume without some serious amount of work on the PC, the easy option is to download and install a silent navigation voice which can be found Here then select this voice when you want to run silent but with Speed Camera warnings - Mike |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I nearly burnt my fingers desperately typing to get that done before you got here Mike!
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mikealder
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well done, the difference being you CAN have two volume levels by taking appart the nav voice on the PC and lowering the volume before creating the actual sound file that goes on the TomTom - but it is not really easy to do, possible but a few hours work to be honest - otherwise the posts look nigh on identical to me  - Mike |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| mikealder wrote: | | otherwise the posts look nigh on identical to me - Mike |
For which I thank my lucky stars - that was the first thing I checked when I saw yours, just in case I'd got egg on my face.
Oh, and when you say ".. you CAN have two volume levels ..." speak for yourself!! Some of us older members wouldn't have a clue AND need the volume on high (or highest) anyway. :D
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sollythegolly
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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AAAAaaaaahhhhhh - Thanks, people. I just knew there'd be someone out there with a workaround.
The 'silent voice' is a great option, and I have now downloaded and installed it.
Many thanks. Safe motoring.
Best regards
Jim |
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voice_of_reason
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using the PGPSW speed cameras? If so, why can't you just set them up to 'Warn When Near POI' and untick the box that says 'Only warn if on route'.
Then you don't even need a route to be plotted, so no voices, but it still warns you when you approach the cameras.
Presumably that's what you want - i.e. you don't need a route plotted at all because you know it well already, but you still want speed camera warnings?
Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick here! Seems too obvious, so possibly I've missed the point somewhere?! |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| voice_of_reason wrote: | | untick the box that says 'Only warn if on route'... Seems too obvious, so possibly I've missed the point somewhere?! |
Great suggestion  Just one minor thought that you'd then get all the cameras off route too and in some areas that might drive you up the wall? But still a damned good suggestion - it never crossed my mind because I always warn only on route.
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| That link is for the female silent voice, does anyone know where I can find the male one? |
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: |
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No it is a male silent voice.
You can actually still hear the female 'silent' voice, so it is not truly silent. 8O
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voice_of_reason
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | Just one minor thought that you'd then get all the cameras off route too and in some areas that might drive you up the wall? |
I guess that could be a problem. Although that's how I use it and it's never really caused me any problems, I do get the occassional warning of a camera that's in a side street that I'm going past, or on a roundabout that's overhead as I'm going under a bridge, but it's certainly not that bad. I guess it also depends on what kind of distance you've got your warnings set up for as to how many 'rouge' warnings you'll get. |
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thebinman
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| Andy_P2002 wrote: | | That link is for the female silent voice, does anyone know where I can find the male one? |
Now THAT'S an oximoron if ever I saw one.
Female AND silent?  |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Quickly looks that up.
| Quote: | En retórica, el oxímoron (del griego ὀξύμωρον, oxymoron), dentro de las figuras literarias, es una de las figuras lógicas; consiste en armonizar dos conceptos opuestos en una sola expresión, formando así un tercer concepto que dependerá de la interpretación del lector.
Dado que el sentido literal de un oxímoron (p. ej. un instante eterno) es absurdo, se fuerza al lector a buscar un sentido metafórico (en este caso: un instante que, por la intensidad de lo vivido durante el mismo, hace perder el sentido del tiempo).
El recurso a esta figura retórica es muy frecuente en la poesía mística y en la poesía amorosa, por considerarse que la experiencia de Dios o del amor trasciende todas las antinomias mundanas.
Ejemplos:
* "Vista ciega, luz oscura, / gloria triste, vida muerta" Rodrigo Cota |
Oh dear, anybody speak whatever this is??
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Were ON EARTH did you look it up Dennis?
Try Dictionary.com  |
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