Any New Voices Available?

If you can find other voice downloads post it. Jessica Rabbit or Cathy Moriarity voices would be interesting. Purrrrrrrrrfect

Hi
I have a route 66 chicago 6000 am i right in thinking that garmins use the same files eg csv/ogg.if so it might widen the search range for voices as have been trying to find them for my chicago 6000

Will the red light and speed camera software work well on a garmin 260w. If it does work, what king of alert will I expect to see or hear.

Go to http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php, you can type anything and choose the voice from many people to pronounce it.

Where do I find the steps to utilize the voice files I create from the website?

You use Ash10's voice utility. http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=v...
You can only change less than 50 voices unless you make a donation to Ash. If you change more than 50 it will make the voices bad quality.

shouldn't be too expensive

Ted

That voice utility sounds like it's close to the right path, but assembling every phrase together sounds an awful lot like...what is that 4-letter word...work. Anything simpler?

Warren --

Both work great on my 260. I don't remember the standard sounds, I think they were some type of bong sound. I use two different custom .wav files for them since the 260 does not support MP3. Gary has a page that will help explain .wav vs MP3 for the 200 series here:

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/pagepoi.02.htm#...

Hope this helps.

Check out navtones.com. They claim to be having a Knight Rider GPS that will be using KITT's voice and includes the red scanner on the sides supposed to be available the end of this month. I would guess the voice download should be released as well.

I just completed personalizing my 880 voices for proximity warnings. It took a few steps but once I got started it was a breeze.

For Speed Cameras, Red Light Cameras, Speed Traps and just about any other proximity alert I want to add now has my name at the beginning. “Hey Dummy, Speed Camera ahead.”

The utility is online and free for personal use for as many voice messages as you want along with both male and female voices and different accents. Latin American Spanish, German, French, Canadian French and U.S – United Kingdom and Indian English are available.

Here are the steps to personalize your Garmin:

First, (you can skip step this if you already have a wav to mp3 encoder) you will need to download and install a free encoder called SUPER© v2006.build.17 that is put out by eRightSoft http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html

This encoder works great for both Video and/or Audio encoding for an extremely wide range of formats. I’ve used it for a couple years now totally trouble free.

The web site is very wordy before you’re able to find the link for the download so I’ve included it here. http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe

To take my typed text and convert to audio, I use AT&T Text-To-Speech (TTS) demo at their web site http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

This demo will take your typed text and convert it to an audio wav format. The nice thing is that the site allows you to hear what you’ve typed and play it. Then you can change the wording and punctuation as often as needed before downloading it to your system.

Once you’ve got your phrases on your system, open the folder and SUPER© v2006.build.17 then drag and drop the wav files into the SUPER© encoder to convert the wav files to mp3 files. SUPER© will place your newly encoded mp3 files into its ‘output’ folder. You’ll have to move the mp3 files to your csv folders.

Once you’ve got that done along with your bitmap icons you can load the scv and mp3s onto your Garmin.

Long Story short:

1. Download and install SUPER© v2006.build.17 http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe.

2. Got to http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php and type your personalized proximity alerts and download the resulting wav file to your system.

3. Open SUPER© and your proximity alerts folder. Drag the wav files, (all at once or one at a time) over to SUPER© and encode them to mp3 format.

4. Move the newly encoded mp3 files to your scv and bitmap, (if you’ve made or downloaded bitmap icons to go with your csv files) folder/files. Make sure the three files have the ‘exact’ same name but different file extensions. (xxx.csv – xxx.bmp – xxx.mp3)

5. Run POI Loader and transfer the files to your Garmin – Done!

Hope this helps… palestar

And then do I also need to find and delete any other MP3 file related to the new file (like the standard "ding ding" proximity sound) from the csv folder?

The only thing I deleted was the wav file I created once I had converted/encoded it to an mp3 format.

I created a work folder "POI Files Working Folder For Uploading" where I placed the three files and worked on them. Naming them the same, (except for their extensions) and working on the icons.

Then I'd moved the finished three files to another folder, "POI Files Completed Folder For Uploading" with the appropriate sub folders to keep the same subject matter together. like Food, Shopping and Red Light Cameras and Speed Traps - Canada and USA.

I did it this way because in some cases there wasn't a bitmap icon for the POI so I would make one by copying a jpg from a web site and then save it as xxx.bmp.

Then I’d crop and resize it with MS Office Picture Manager to get the icon bmp to look the way I wanted. I’d use Paint on occasion to tweak coloring on the icon or whiteout/color the background.

Good luck… Palestar