Reprogrammed Phrases: What have you changed??

Recalculating has become:

OK, your way, master.

Enjoy.

Fred

I don't seem to have the "voice alerts" turned on for my 265W. I have the custom POI voice alerts turned on, so when I approach one of them I get my custom voice command, but can't seem to figure out why the pre-programmed phrases to work?!
Anyone have any thoughts?

Are you saying that your 265 does not provide you with voice prompts while navigating? "Turn right on Main Street."

ia also turned off, but "She" says, "I'm sorry, I messed up" and the other I can't post here.

Recalculating... updating route, please standby.

All voices call me by name before saying... please drive to highlighted route.

I've gamerised mine, using quips that sound more Bladrunner/Animeish

e.g.
lost satellite reception -> smog to thick to receive
recalculating -> altering flightpath

take the bag off my head!

Recalculating, wife made me clean it up,

Recal to "Pay attention, now I have to find another way."

Lost sat. to "Oh Crap, now we're really lost!"

Follow the highlight route to "Follow the magenta-brick road."

Turn Left/Right to "You gotta go left/right."

I had to change a few, the wife didn't like that really nice sounding Australian gal calling me "honey" or "sweetheart".

No, my Garmin gives me directions and also notifies when approaching custom POIs based on my custom audio, but it does not "say" the pre-programmed phrases like recalculating, etc.

I'm playing with it in SIM mode right now trying to prompt some of those messages, but any insight would be appreciated.

"recalculating" became "Have it your way."

Others dealing with low power and losing sats are changed to get my attention... "WHAT did that thing just say?"

"recalculating" is now "and where do you think you are going."

I have no idea. You should probably start a new thread about that so you can get proper attention for your problem.

My "recalculating" now says "Who's the navigation expert here? I am!".

"Are you Lost Again? Can't you follow instructions?"

"Amazing!! You Made it!"

"Try and stay on the route this time, OKAY?

it would be difficult to list them all.

Some of them include "I've put a magenta line on the map. Can you find it?" "Did I tell you to go there?", "get on the boat" and "get off the boat". Probably my favorites are about U-Turns - "Let's do the hokey-pokey and turn ourselves about" and "turn yourself about."

Oh, if I loose satellite coverage, "Hey, I'm lost here. Better get out the paper maps,"

I haven't tried this yet but will now as the reprogrammed phrases are great. Threads like this are the reason I keep comming back to the POIFactory.

But first I need to find French voices - I wouldn't want to keep all the fun for myself...

In the meantime I'll start looking for nice answers

Gives me an evil idea, to do with my GF's GPS.

Simply changed recalculating to updating route

After finding this wonderful editor, Karen now tells me, "Oh no, we are so lost!". Got wonderful comments when driving guests around recently.

This has given me an idea or three, but do the substitutions need to be "dictionary" words or will other spellings work phonetically?

Instead of recalculating, Karen says "Oh no, Todd, Oh no!"

I have no idea who Todd is, but it's better than "recalculating."

Ok, ok ... Todd is my name. Try TurboCC's tool to have your GPS say your name.

I've changed more than I can remember.

Another favorite is "Todd, flip a U E" instead of "Make a U-turn."

And lastly, "Tod, you've arrive at"

Really freaks folks out the first time they hear my GPS talk to me, using my name.

Kinda makes me feel like Karen is sitting right beside me ... of course, my wife would have to move to the back seat ... but if Karen shows up, well, all bets are off.

is now "laying in new course" on my Nuvi.

You can type whatever you want. You can also make intentional typo to improve the speech.

For example (not a real one!), if "speech" is not pronounced correctly, you can try to type "speach". If it is phonetically right, it should sound right.

I changed recalculating to: You want to listen to me or hear your girlfriend nag about asking for directions from someone!

Or: If you like the way your going, then turn me off.

There are others for all kind of things. It's nice to change them around.

"it's time to go, you waiting for Christmas... proceed to..."

I changed recalculating to:
"(my name), you missed the freaking turn! OK fine. Do it your way."

Karen has an attitude when the GPS recalculates now.

This is neat, I have to try it.
Thanks for the tips.

while i figure out where the dickens I'll find the voice to go with it... Oh boy

I use Dr. Nightmare... It works very well for my motorhome. I love his random sayings like "Did you hear something?" or "Don't pay any attention to that noise in the trunk" or even "Have you seen my pet spider?". You never know when or what he is going to say.

Cool idea. I made mine into the Star Trek's computer voice. Together with the custom POI sounds it feels like a Trek ship. OK, I'm a Star Trek geek

(yes, my "vehicle" is the Enterprise-E)

Karen tells me "You naughty boy, you're not listening" when I stray off course.

You're not alone. The first time my wife heard my GPS call me by name I got the 'furry eyeball' and "getting a little personal aren't we?" That's bridespeak for "change it, NOW!"

Cheers

Member of another list secretly replaced recalculating with something very insulting and very, very vulgar on his wifes unit. She didn't discover it until she had a business colleague in the car with her. I think she's still staying at her mothers place.

I've changed a few words/phrases to "clean up" things, like "traffic circle" instead of "roundabout" and rather than "make a U-turn" it tells me "turn around, turn around".

The two changes that first time passengers enjoy the most - when the initial route is plotted, it says "OK Moose, let's go" and when I miss a turn, I'm told to "Try to pay attention next time!"

I'll also recommend not playing dirty tricks on other people's devices. Not only can it create embarrassment, but you never know what might come back your way.

Any thoughts about this working on the 3790? I'm wondering of the additional phrases added for resonse to voice commands would make it incompatible, or if those are in a separate file.

I do not see why it would not work. For sure the speech reconition engine do not use the same phrases as the speech engine. Just try it. If there is any problem, just put the original voice file back and this will erase any change you have made with TTSVoiceEditor.

Best regards,

Turbo

Thanks. I'm just getting off work now so will try it when I get home, just thought maybe someone else already had. I'll let you know so you can add it to your list.

Well, the couple of things I tried here (simulating route) seemed to work just fine on the 3790. I'll give it a real test on the way to work tomorrow.

On the wife's 760...

recalculating became- Robin, you're not listening

How did your cereals taste this fine morning , then ?

If I install Dr Nightmare voice files, does it overwrite the existing voice files? Can I choose to use it from time to time, and will the unit return to normal when not using it?

My Recalculating has become:

"Next time, Larry, listen to me" Just like the wife.

My cemetery alert, set for every cemetery in the US is:

"Larry, there are some dead people ahead"

It will show up in the same list that all of your default voices are in. You can switch back any time you like. Check out the other ones there too, Squirrely, Elfred and Yeti (which I love but can't really be used for navigation unless you want to look at the screen a lot).

My recalculating is "You big dummy!" That's actually a code phrase for much worse language when the kids are around. My 7yr old cracks up when Karen calls me a big dummy.

I changed recalculating by deleting the word. That way it doesn't interrupt my music with useless (to me) information.

I thought this thread was about funny replacements - at least I was hoping it was...

Tried changing just some of the numbers but they don't work (at least where I expected them to). I wanted mixed english and spanish. Turn left in seven point cinco miles

to "Wrong turn idiot"
Drive to highlighted route to " get in sit down and shut up"