Cutom audio alerts on new garmin nuvi without mp3?

Use *.wav files.

Fred

You also need the SOX.EXE program. You will find a good tutorial here: http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/pagepoi.02.htm#...

Thanks, I will give it a try.

I have sox.exe and *.wav audio files set up for the poi alerts and it works with no problems.

Here is the outline how to set up http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730

Any recommendation for a program (possible free) for recording to .wav or at least to let me increase volume for the custom alerts I have? TTS voice on my unit is much louder than alerts I'd like to use.

You can make your own wav files by going to http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php and typing in what you want it to say or record.

I use audacity. It's available on Soundforge and is a free down load. It is a very powerful program and very good with sound files of all types.

If you create wave files at the AT&T site, I usually do a bass boost of about 3 db then apply equalization and then bump the volume up to 95%. Makes the alerts sound great over the p-poor speakers in the unit and really superb over the car stereo.

@charlesd45 & a_user

If you already have .mp3 files you can convert them to .wav files using software like the free Audacity program, available free from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/