Pig Tones

Oh, this should be fun - "Politically Incorrect" voices?!?

This is really cool, how much do they run now?

These are not TTS voices.

It still could be fun. Pick up the in-laws from Texas, turn on the GPS with GW giving directions... On second thought, not such a good idea..

anybody try this yet?

For the price I think I will stick with the ones I have. Too many other fun things here on this site for now.

Hi everybody, well I was the sucker to go try it 3 days ago. Since I have a nuvi 660 I was directed to download the Garmin Installer for the pigtone voices first and then purchase and download a voice or voices. I decided on the arnold guvenator voice and followed all the steps to the end where it stated that the voice was successfully loaded onto my device. I checked the voice file for my GPSr and found it there but it was under a "vup file" format and not a "vpm file" format like the other Garmin voices. Sure enough after I had disconnected my device from my computer and powered it on I was unable to find the arnold voice option on my device, it had American Jill and the other usual suspects, but no arnold! I suspect that that the 660 will not recognize vup files and I've not found a way to convert them to vpm. Of course pigtones never mentioned this and I haven't heard back from them in 3 days since I've fired off an email to their customer support dept. and I didn't see a phone number for them either. Their FAQ page is blank also. This certainly doesn't look good Anyways I will be pursuing getting back my $13 and change CA through Paypal soon. Been busy the past few days so I haven't posted about this bad experience until now.

Well I finally received an email from pigtones late yesterday. They will refund my account and they asked if I wanted to be a beta tester for their products as they try to "work out the bugs"....like the incompatible voice files. Sounds like a real work-in-progress.

Glad they got back to you. I still think this would be a fun product to have, once it works...

My sentiments exactly, we'll see what happens.

I sent them an email, on my GPS unit. when i asked about the .vpm file, they said they had wraped the .vpm in a .vup file, sorta propriatary. it said that they could only load one voice on the GPS at a time (garmin anyway) for now, and it was "american_english" in the system. check that one to see if its your voice. they let me know that they were working on getting the garmin to recognize the differnt names. said check back with them mid next month.
hope that helps.

they said they had no problems with the tom tom tho. hmmm maybe ill trade my garmin for my wifes tomtom. she has 2 cool voices now.

thanks guys

Thx for the info..will wait for someone to figure how to use the file

You need to use the (free) download program available on the main page of the Pigtones web site.

Once you install this program, you can then double-click on your purchased VUP file, and it will allow you to 'install' the VUP file into your Garmin.

I have the Nuvi 660, and it worked just fine, and my GPS is saying all sort of quite inappropriate things.

You need to choose "American English" to hear the new, custom file you purchased.

Also, once you've bought and downloaded the VUP file, you can install it to as many GPS devices as you have!

Thanks for the heads up because I have the same mdel and was also looking at buying it...

Hi,

I purchased the Elvis file from them. Their installer does not recognize the Garmin Nuvi880 as being connected to my computer.

Numerous emails have been sent to/from pigtones to correct this problem, so far no luck. I will say this about pigtones, they have been working with me to correct the problem. So far I think their customer support is top notch.

I'll keep you posted.

I prefer the do it yourself route.
Either record your own voice or have someone else do it. Or, search the web for "sound bytes", "sound clips", "celebrity voices" etc.

There are wav and mp3 files. Most are free and can be edited, using your favorite audio editing software. Which you can get free...search for that too.

For example, I have Mr T "I don't think so succkka" as my redlight camera alert sound.

Search the web and get creative.

I have been to this site. I was curious how well they worked. I don't know that it is worth the cost. I like Ismonop's DYI idea.

Is there a way to extract the wavs inside that .vup file? I have a mobile device with Mobile XT and Pigtone's installer doesn't recognize it as a Garmin GPS (obviously), so it doesn't install the .vup file. If we can extract those wavs, we can then put together a .vpm which will play in my device.

I purchased several of their voices this evening. A couple were in .vpm format -- Elvis and that potty mouthed sargeant. All I did was copy & paste those files into the voice folder on my Nuvi 855. However, the Homer voice was a different story. It's a vup file. I had to download & install their intaller -- and then do it again, because their installed kept telling me to "connect my GPS to the PC & try again." After I reinstalled, it did put the Homer voice on my Garmin. However, it REPLACES YOUR AMERICAN ENGLISH voice -- and not simply add the Homer. I think this should be clearly stated on their site. But the new voices are funny as heck. Although the potty mouthed Sargeant is even more potty mouthed than I expected. Can only use that one with certain folks in the car!

Here it is 2010 and they told me the same story. I am not sure they have even contacted Garmin. I would think they could have done something in two years or remove this statement.

I know it's been a LONG time since this post, but I just downloaded the Pigtones. You can get all of them for $24.99 right now.

Anyway, for the voices that have vup files, look in the Mac folder. The vpm files are in there. Only drawback is they all install as "american english" so you can only install one of them at a time. But I got 11 or so voices on my 2595LMT with their own file names, and just plan to rotate the ones that have to be installed as "american english". Right now I have "Wrong Juan" as my american english voice.