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 Topic: Ash10's Voice Utility Software |
RyanT
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 Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:02 pm Subject: Ash10's Voice Utility Software |
| Does anyone know which version of the English_American_.vpm is the newest? The one on my nuvi 200 seemed to have 116 wav files, but I just downloaded "Version 2.00" of the American Voice dated June o ... |
| Topic: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
RyanT
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:56 pm Subject: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
David,
Actually it was a tremendous help! I downloaded "Version 2.00" of the American Voice dated June of 05. And that was on the "Street Pilot 2730," which seemed to be the newest unit for which ... |
| Topic: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:41 pm Subject: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
| Just an update on the newer voice files. I haven't listened to them all yet, but the new .vpm of American English I got from the Garmin site had over 130 files as opposed to the 116 I have been using ... |
| Topic: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
RyanT
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:20 pm Subject: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
David,
I downloaded the voice, but it comes in a self-extracting ".exe" file that fails on my computer because it doesn't recognize that my unit is attached! Grrr. All I need is the version 2 Ame ... |
| Topic: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
RyanT
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:51 pm Subject: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
Thanks DAvid,
I'll give that a try!
Ryan |
| Topic: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:39 pm Subject: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
| Yep - non-TTS voices can be used on any nuvi. Just do a WebUpdater and at the end of the process you will be given a list of optional downloads. Most of these are voices. If your unit is non-TTS yo ... |
| Topic: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:03 pm Subject: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
| Both the 7xx and 8xx series operate in the same manner. You have to have the TTS capability in the firmware / hardware and the voice files. You just switch between a TTS and non-TTS voice to turn TTS ... |
| Topic: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:41 pm Subject: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
| Don't forget it ONLY works with NON TTS voices. The 2xx are all non-TTS I believe. The 8xx will have a mix of both types - but most users will be using TTS voices as this gives much more flexibility ... |
| Topic: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:58 pm Subject: New Garmin Voice File Structure? |
| Did Garmin change the voice command list for some new models? I made a voice of my own several months ago, using Ash's utility, for my NUVI 200 (116 commands, including bleeps), which I still use. ... |
| Topic: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
RyanT
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:10 pm Subject: Do New Units Have Same Commands as Older Ones? |
| I have a NUVI 200 a friend gave me in Feb 07. After playing with the voices, I was able to put my own on there using Ash's Voice Utility. I used the American_English voice file, which had 116 (I thi ... |
| Topic: Ash10's Voice Utility Software |
RyanT
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:46 pm Subject: Confused About # of Commands for Different Voices on NUVI |
| I was playing with Ash's utility a couple of months ago and had some fun putting my own voice on my NUVI 200. I used the American_English.vpm as a template. But I noticed that the British_English.vp ... |
| Topic: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
RyanT
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:13 am Subject: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
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 comman ... |
| Topic: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
RyanT
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:02 pm Subject: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
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 hea ... |
| Topic: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
RyanT
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:18 am Subject: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
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 voi ... |
| Topic: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
RyanT
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:59 pm Subject: Putting Your Own Voice on TomTom One? |
Best instructions I've seen are from Graeme Lucas 56 words and phrases to record.
So it looks like the list is now smaller!
Thanks Andy. Yeah, those are the same lists. I'm just wondering if the ... |
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