Program to Customize TTS Voices

Generally speaking, comments like those come from technically challenged individuals that can't do or make edits or tweaks on there own.

Piracy is different, when you get something with out paying for it, or if you sell something you haven't paid for to make a profit that is a pirate.

People tweak software everyday, Microsoft's windows gets tweaked all the time to make it run faster to keep if from getting virus's and so on.

Just don't sell your new TTSvoice edits and your going be fine, And for those that don't like the thought of editing the TTS files, just Skip this thread now that you know whats in it!

Bob

Thanks so very much for the program. I now have Jill nagging me with snide comments and Jack calling me names like your friends sometimes can. Makes the travel alot more fun. I like watching peoples faces when instead of recalculating Jack says. "Numbnut you missed your turn".

I had a volume problem with my 760. When I used the hands free bluetooth phone feature the speaker volume of the person I was talking to was too high and the only way to correct that was to turn down the master volume to 70 but then even with the navigation volume level set at 100 the navigation volume was to low then.

With this program I was able to boost the navigation volume of the voice file itself from the original level of 65 up to 95 and now even with the master volume of the 760 set at 70 both the bluetooth phone and navigation volume are good.

Nice work. Keep it up.

Does this work with the Garmin Nuvi 680??

It should work with any model that uses TTS to announce navigation.

WOW--Thanks for the info it will be a lot of fun playing with the nuvi 760

I can hear it now... "Excuse me sir, do you know why I pulled you over? I was behind you at that traffic light and heard some non-factory comments coming from your GPS unit..."

Alot of devices have it in thier EULA that it is illegal to modify, in anyway, the resident software. I wouldn't be suprised if it's in a Terms of use agreement with Garmin too, but you'd never be able to find it without hours of digging. Maybe it's there, maybe it's not, who cares?

This is up there with one of the best things I've found yet for my GPS!!!

OH BOY, am I gonna have fun with this!! (LOL) Did I hear anyone say they wanted an "R" rated version of their Nuvi?! (LOL)

Just have a backup plan and be ready to switch to a "G" rated version if you have little ones in the car.

I can hear it now, instead of "recalculating" you get something like, "where the f*#k are you going?"

LOL........sounds good to me!

Hello all! I just wanted to say hello to some fans of TTSVoiceEditor.

I am glad you liked the tool. It is fun to see what you have done with it. LOL!

For the voice name, just use the latest version (v2.40 at this time). It will allow you to save the voice file to any name (.vpm), but now you can change the screen name as seen on your gps in the language menu. You can put anything as long as the new name is shorter or equal in length as the original name. For example, you can change "English Australian Karen (TTS)" to "Sexy Karen". The name of the vpm file does not matter as posted already.

To get the latest version, you can go on gspreview as posted on the first post or you can go directly here:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Downloads

Have fun!

TurboCCC

I can't wait to try this out over the weekend. Gonna give Emily a little extra pizazz, as us old folks say.

Thanks turboccc, that's a great little program you came up with. I'm sure the folks here will come up with their "wish list" of new features. We look forward to Versions 2.50, 2.55, 2.60, etc.

And, welcome to the POI Factory! Stop back often.

I played around with the comas and it seems to do the trick however I'm not totally satisfied with the pronunciations, maybe instead of writing the word as it is spelled the better way is to do it phonetically.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank Turbocc for developing this program that we are having so much fun with.

I agree with flaco. You may have to play with certain words to get them pronounced correctly.

An example in the original unedited Jill file is lines 40 and 72. Line 40 is "off of". Line 72 is "GPS is oph". So for some reason the programmers spelled "off" correctly in line 40, but spelled it "oph" for line 72. Unless the programmmers made a typo!!

this is simply awesome. thanks so much! no more annoying phrases

now mine uses a bit of profanity

The Zumo 550 has TTS but this doesn't seem to work on it. Guess I'll try the other one..

When you click on the download link in the original post, it brings you to the forum page. On page 3 of the topic, member ECM says he/she got it to work on their Zumo.

You may want to try again.

This program is very cool. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Now I'm gonna go play...

First..great job!

Second..can it work for the 200? You mention TTS, which the 200 doesn't do for street names, but I'm wondering if their phrases still use that engine? If so, your utility should work. If not, I think you mentioned some other utils for these devices.

Thanks,
David

I always get really excited when we have innovative individuals like you join our community. Welcome to the family, it is really great to have you in our ranks.

I think this program is fantastic, thanks for sharing it with us.

I have added a software contributor badge to your profile page. Great Job!!!

Miss POI

I cant seem to get it to work on my nuvi 680.

Did you follow the steps in the readme.txt file? It worked on my 660.

I'll have to give this a try. I am thankful for all those that have time to come up with all the enhancement to my GPS. I never would have done the research myself and all the POI, red light cameras, etc have added a lot to the usefulness.

I have read it throughly. Im no computer wiz by all means.Im sure im doing something wrong. When i run the program, i cant do anything. Suggestions?

OK, first, make a copy of the original vpm file you are trying to change on your PC as a backup. Then save another copy to a different folder on your PC to edit. You could work with the file directly on your GPSr, but it is much slower.

It sounds like you are able to open the file, correct? Scroll down to the word or phrase you want to change and double-click it. That should open another window showing the current expression and a place to type the new expression you want to replace it with. When you are done, click OK.

When you are done making all the changes, save the modified file to your PC using the same file name and overwrite the previous file. Then, copy the modified file back to the GPSr.

After you load the file and according to the enclosed "readme.txt" file you are supposed to click once on the word/expression to change, I found that by clicking once nothing happens but if you double click it then opens another pop-up screen where you can make the changes.

I have saved the vpm files to my pc. But how do i view what is on them? I guess what im trying to say is, it ask me what program i want to use to open it?(vpm file) Thanks for your help so far.

I have a nuvi 350 that has TTS and I followed all the directions for the Voice Editor. It loads a file with the correct name and it lists the correct screen name but the only data it lists are a few special characters for line 1 /t/+/~/= and line 2 $//"jB/N. It says the VPM type is Nuvi 7x0/3x0 TTS. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Mike107,

Post the *original* tts file somewhere on www dot rapidshare dot com and send me the link. I will have a look at your VPM file for the Nuvi 350. I just want to make sure I am compatible.

MissPOI, thanks for the SW contributor badge.

N.B. Yes, you have to double click on the phrases to edit them. A single click was only in earlier version. I will correct the readme if not right.

Turboccc, thanks for this great little program.

turboccc,
Welcome to our community, It is nice to always have a coder show up and share his or her work. Yours is Fantastic and you should be proud, looks like this program has gone viral though the Garmin ranks and forums. My congratulations to you for your hard work, and please know it is greatly appreciated by us all here at POI-Factory and the other forums.

Thanks
Bob

Thanks turboccc for this fun program, I've already changed a few of Jill's phrases and they crack the whole family up! Welcome to POI-FACTORY, you certainly came in with a bang.

A really neat program..Instead of "recalculating" I now have, "Look dummy, follow my directions"

RhythmTip,

Thanks for the suggestion. I followed your instructions and it worked great. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it!

Miki

It does indeed work with a works with Streetpilot c550! Have a blast with it!

I read on another forum Turboccc reported, Comma's slow down the speech and "." will give you a one second stopped pause. Most speech processors that I have dealt with in the past need help phoneticlly.

For those interested:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phonetics

Bob

has anyone done this successfully with a 200?

The 200 doesn't have TTS files to edit

No Magellan

V2.42 is out! I just corrected a bug with was affecting the 255W and 260W (and the rest of the 2x0 family supporting TTS). Download here:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Downloads

Question: Does the Magellan supports TTS?

When you change the name in v 2.40 I assume you leave the file name the same. Can you change the file name, copy it to your unit and have the original file with original name and new file with new name both accessible from unit?

Great program, thank you.

I would bve nice to have the ability with the program to disable some voice (particularly the "recalculating") I tried making that line blank, the wor re-appeared at a diffrent location. By the way I changed that one to: "Roger, you have changed direction"

Glad that it worked for you!!!...We all help each other here at POI Factory. Miss POI, Motorcycle Mama, MrKenFL and so many others helped me and continue to help and support everyone here. Thats what makes this site the greatest on the web!

This program is a blast. Changed recalculating to- "Idiot! You are not following the route I gave you."

Instead of make a u turn it's "flip a Uee"

My wife was cracking up.

That has a lot of possibilities.

Yes, you have to keep the same name. It is a "bug" for now. For some reasons, the nuvi knows the 2 voices are the same and keeps the original name from the original file. I tried changing it in the GUPDATE.GCD, but got the message corrupted update.

It seems we will have to live with it for now.

It works already like that. It did not re-appear, it is just there twice and the message is not exactly the same.

Same thing for turn left and right. We see it twice. I changed both to different things, but I only hear one of them.

Would be great to know when each phrases is used.

So I can't rename the modified 'Jill' file to 'Mary' and load it on the nuvi along with the original 'Jill' file?

I thought that would work?!? So there's no advantage to changing the screen name to 'Mary' if I'm going to end up overwriting the 'Jill' file anyway. I was hoping to keep the factory 'Jill' file and add the new 'Mary' file.

Bummer.