Method of Recording New Voices - Garmin Voice Utility

3jeKmPHy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Posts: 10

How do you guys suggest recording new voices to avoid the sentences sound strange? Recording the words separately, when joined together to form a sentence, sounds very strange. Do you suggest recording the sentences first and then splitting the .wav into the individual words?

I hope I made that clear. Thanks for any input you may have.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:23 am Post subject:

Moved to Garmin forum & Thread Title edited for clarity

BTW this relates to the Garmin Voice Utility and the Garmin Nuvi 205W.

See also

this thread.

3jeKmPHy - it would be much better and easier for everyone if you just had one thread on your issues with the Garmin Voice Utility and listed them all there, instead of opening a new thread for each and every question. Also when posting pick an appropriate forum such as the Garmin one here and provide as much info as possible. The OP above was in the Beginners Forum and doesn't give anyone viewing it much info about what you are doing and with what.

3jeKmPHy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Posts: 10

This has nothing to do with the Voice Utility. I use Sony Sound Forge to record .wavs. I am simply asking if I should record each word separately or record sentences and then split the recording into the individual .wavs to avoid my Nuvi 205W sounding "sing songy." For example, instead of recording "arriving" "at" "destination" "on" "right", I would record "arriving at destination on right" and then split the recording into the individual words.

Is this what most people do?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

3jeKmPHy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Posts: 10

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

Yes but the point is this should have been mentioned in the opening post. You asked how to record your voice for the best results but if you don't mention the software you are using, the method you wish to use and the hardware you want to run it on, no-one will know how to answer your questions.

At some stage someone was going to have to ask "What hardware are you using the voice on", "What software are you using" etc so I'm just trying to get the information up there for you so people don't look at the thread and turn away when they could have helped. It helps if people have the "big picture" of whats going on rather than just one specific step.

I've moved it to the Garmin forum so it'll be seen by the Garmin regulars, I've also renamed the title to show you are using the Voice Utility so that it'll attract the attention of other Voice Utility users and maybe even the softwares author, I've also cross referenced other threads you started which detail what you have done already and are trying to do. Otherwise it was stuck in the Beginners GPS lounge with a non-descriptive title attracting no-ones attention.

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