Increasing the volume of the default overspeed bong?

[Feek]

Is this possible? I like the default overspeed bong but it's a bit quiet, I'd like to increase the volume a bit.

[PaulB2005]

Do you mean the one built into the unit (you don't say which one you are using)? Or are you using a Custom WAV / Mp3 bong?

[Feek]

Sorry, I thought it was obvious when I said the default one - The one built in to the Nuvi 760 itself.

I was tired after a long weekend working, that's my excuse

[PaulB2005]

Other than playing with the volume control there is no direct way to do it.

However you can try a Custom Voice Alert from here

Alternatively i also have the bongs from the 760 as MP3 and are set up for the Consolidated database. I can send them to you if you PM me and you can try adjusting the volume in a program such as Audacity and loading those.

[MaFt]

you could use ash10's voice file editor thingy-ma-bob, split the voice file, find the 'bongs' edit them to make them louder then repack it all?

MaFt

[Feek]

Ahah, I shall give MaFt's suggestion a try, I think the default bong is sound 24 so I'll do that and see how it goes.

Ta.

[PhilHornby]

[BigPerk]

PhilHornby wrote

[MaFt]

[BigPerk]

No - I don't think I did change to a different voice....
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[Ash10]

[Feek]

Here's what I've done.

I've extracted the English_British_.vpm file from my Nuvi and used Ash's tool to break it down. I see two files with bongs, sample numbers 24 and 38. There is a double bong on sound 63 but I don't think it's that one.

I dramatically increased the volume of those, combined everything back into one file and copied it back onto my Nuvi. I can see from the datestamp that this is correct. I didn't touch the associated .sum file.

I then switched from the file I normally use (Daniel TTS) to the non TTS one I edited and back to Daniel. Then I went for a drive to one of the local mobile locations (which one can legally approach at 40 from one direction, the camera always points the other way towards the people doing 30) at a speed over 30. All I get is the default volume bong sound.

So I drove past, down a side road and parked up, switched the sound back to the new one I'd just created (the non TTS one) and drove back. Still the same default volume bong.

Now I work in IT and have done for over 20 years so I really don't think I'm doing anything wrong here, but am prepared to accept that it's possible.

To be sure, I'm now copying the English_British_.vpm file back from the Nuvi into a new directory which I'll extract from again and see whether the bongs are my edited ones.

*pause*

Can't do it - I get the "file has already been split/joined" message so I know this is my modified file.

[turboccc]

On the nuvi 760 (and maybe others), the dong speed alert, the dong-dong camera in sight and the ka-schlick (photo sound ) seem to come from the GUPDATE.GCD file. I changed some of them manually. I am in the process of making a tool to modify them, but I have still some issues to resolve.

It is a mystery to me why the dong speed alert sound is both in the VPM (although not used) and GCD files. Most probably a backward/foreward compatibility issue.

[gatorguy6996]

Turboccc, i was going to direct you to this thread, but I see you found it on your own. Thanks for all your work on this.

Gatorguy
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[Feek]

Thanks turbocc, it's good to know that I'm not screwing things up! Looking forward to being able to tweak this bong.

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