Hugarian Grandmother guidance voice

 

May be in the wrong forum, but I have a Tom-Tom and their voices are a bit more expansive than Garmins (I'll probably be corrected). I have a really neat one that I love. Its a Grandmother that speaks in broken English (Hungarian native). An example when you arrive at your destination is; "If you did vat I toldt you to do, you are vhar you are supposed to be. If you are not vehr you are supposed to be, then you did not listen to me"

Now read it as written not as corrected spelling would dictate. It reminds me of my Grandmother who was Itilian. I would love to somehow get this onto my Garmin 1490. Any help? Thanks....ralphyboy

There are voices that can be added, but...

There are voices that can be added, but your two nuvis speak street names when using a TTS voice. As far as I know, all add-on voices are not TTS. The result is that your instructions will go from "In point one miles, turn right on Broadway Boulevard" to "In point one miles, turn right."

If you're OK losing Text To Speech, an internet search should pull up several sites with Garmin-compatible voices, the voice options and their costs.

Garmin does sell some voices as well:

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/voices/

PS--Welcome to The Factory! You're posting to the correct forum as far as I'm concerned.

Ya' know...

initially that sounds very cute, especially if you are hungarian and happen to have a
Hungarian grandmother but, by the end of a long day's journey,they'd have to take me away in a straight jacket, to keep me from putting a round through my temple!

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So, you feel guilty of

So, you feel guilty of someting, yes! vud you like to share it viss us? Und, do't pull zee triger juss for me.

Are you making fun of my grandmother, may her Hungarian bones rest in piece, I tell ya. Vhat, you got no humor?

One more thought

Thisideup wrote:

So, you feel guilty of someting, yes! vud you like to share it viss us? Und, do't pull zee triger juss for me.

Are you making fun of my grandmother, may her Hungarian bones rest in piece, I tell ya. Vhat, you got no humor?

If you just want to change some wording (like from "Recalculating" to "OK, I'll do it your way"), you may want to look at TTS Voice Editor by turboccc:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/TTSVoiceEditor

There's been a lot of discussion on the forums here regarding its use. I've not tried it but a lot of folks have and can probably offer help.

So if you want pseudo Magyar-English spoken with an American/Aussie/British (or whatever TTS voices your two nuvis offer) accent, it may be do-able with a bit of effort on your part. If done, be sure to keep a backup of the original voice files on a computer, CDR or something in case you want to return to stock. Maybe we need to get Márta Sebestyén to create a new Garmin TTS voice: Hungarian English. I might buy that as an alternative to Aussie Karen, then swap back and forth every now and then.

http://sebestyenmarta.hu/?acmeLanguage=en

I want Salma Heyak

Giving me directions in English with her Spanish accent. Now THAT's hot!

To hell with the grandma thang! Next, someone will want a Jewish baba nagging them...

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I want my

direction done the way that the cajuns speak english with an accent.

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Whats a sal heyak?

So you bad mouth my grandmaw-maw who could easy even today shove your trunk up your tali, which vud stop that nervous bouncing you seem to have, and then you make fun of the "wie sellers" from Isrial, for vut, ask, for vut?

I thing a good ye dish, Prussian Jewish draw would sound really good and if I could I would translate those over.

As stated earlier, All that is cute, but gets old after a while. I bought the 5 GPS's for entertainment, I'm 67 and I don't go nowhere, So there!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Thisideup wrote:

I bought the 5 GPS's for entertainment, I'm 67 and I don't go nowhere, So there!

Surely you jest.
And here I thought I had a few screws loose.

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