Voices

If you run WebUpdater, you will see all the voices that are available for your unit. Garmin units do not support custom voices at this time.

I enjoyed listening to John Cleese, Ahhhnold S and Clint Eastwood on my rx5915. I was able to download them free.

Cheers

Yeah, unfortunately Garmin doesn't offer any cool voices like that.

I'm still waiting for Garmin to offer the "Bubba" voice like TomTom does. Living in the middle of Texas he would fit in perfectly!

I kinda like the American Jill on my 7200. My dispatch thinks I have someone with me in the truck!

I'd love to get a hold of a TTS program with Jill's voice so I don't have to have different voices coming out of my 350.

I'm pretty happy with Emily (she makes me feel so proper), but yes, John Cleese would have been a hoot.

I guess I am not as fortunate. I can locate Cleese, but it is for a $$ fee on my Tom Tom acount.
Can't locate the others.

Try this address: http://navtones.com/tomtom.php

Thanks - that is where I was looking, but the only free voice is a pass for me.

Could not find Eastwood at that location, but bubba is there ($$$). Strange - Cleese is not on this page!

I appreciate the help!

FPichon, I think you're right... I remember seeing it within the last year, not for free though, but it's not there anymore... Hmmm I guess his royalties went up and Gary Busey was available? hehehe Most of these are over-the-top for me anyway, but hey, at least there's a choice. And yeah, nothing against it, but I don't think my iPAQ will get the free voice either, no mater how fabulous

Looks like this GARMIN topic got highjacked by the TomTom boys!

Hello all,
1st post here, just got a nuvi 250 and was wondering if any other voices are available besides the generic ones provides (british english, american english, etc are the ones provided) On my unit there is no "Jill" or "Emily", etc.

Thanks !

if i am correct, you can't get tts on the 250. I am not sure if there is a modification for it or not. The C530 use to have one, but I think Garmin fixed that issue.

Thanks for the reply, so only units with "tts" can upload new voices ? So basically I am stuck with the ones already in my unit ?

Per Garmin's website:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&pID=6324
it appears the nuvi 250 does NOT support TTS.

Go to 'Specs'; then under 'Features' the Speaks street names (e.g. "Turn right ON ELM STREET in 500 ft.") option says NO.

RT

Thank you for the reply. I already knew that the 250 did not have "tts". What I was wondering about was if any other voices were available besides the ones already included. The 250 has some bland voices for the basic commands = ie : "turn left in..." "arriving at destination..." etc.

Are you wanting something like:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6136
or a all new voice set?

One advantage of non-TTS is it's much easier to change the voice yourself. You can change "turn left in..." to "Hey man, you better hang a left in ..."!

RT

I guess that what I want is a new voice set ie : "Jill" or "Betty" or other that are available on the "tts" but for the basic commands of the 250. Thank you for your links, I would still like some clearer info o how to create my own set of instructions if possible.

ENB

See the thread on http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=v...

Very interesting, thanks !

Could you please tell me how to replace the voice command? I have nuvi 200. Thank you

Tom Tom has celebrity voices. My favorite is Mr. T.

There are both comical and serious versions.

Nice idea to break up a long drive.

Jen

I think I must stay with that female voice on my GPS, there is no possibility to change that i think?

If you've removed them from your unit they can be downloaded via Garmin WebUpdater again.

If you haven't removed them you should have:

American English
American English-Jack (TTS)
American English-Jill (TTS)

Take a peek, Wrench/Settings/Language/Voice

I just don't like jack, Doesnt sound nice. Celleberty voices would be cool, but id rather have a perfected simple jill. How good, acurate does the celeberty voices sound? and do they cover tts? if not its pointless, (for me)

As everybody I am also waiting eagerly for those cool voices for my Nuvi.

He won't have any TTS files on a 250, just the basic female or male English.

Whoops, wasn't thinking..

PLEASE tell me were to download custom voices..for my Nuvi

regards

What if I copy my voices out of my Nuvi 350 and upload these to rapidshare. You can then download them in copy and paste them into your Garmin unit, voice folder.
Maybe this will work.

Hey thanks man,can we try this,I'm also new to this,
wouldn't it be easier to just mail them to me?

Regards

mossie, if you download Garmin's WebUpdater software and install it on your computer and then run it with your nuvi connected to your computer, you will get access to ALL the voices available for your unit.

Hi,thanks ,I did that,..did get alot of voices,..boring,..I want a more sexier female voice,...or a male voice,...something like Shrek,or Mr Bush,..etc

Do one get custom voices for the Nuvis?

regards

That is one good thing about Tomtom, many custom voices including many (fake) star voices. They once had the real John Cleese record for them including some hilarious commentary but I haven't seen that one around for a while, it may not be available.

Is this the one you're thinking of?

http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=5&BID=14

I read some reviews that tom tom is not as accurate as garmin, in terms of shortest way etc. may be you can tell if this is just a roumer or some trouth to that

Hi,
Apologies if i am commenting out of topic.I have a Garmin Nuvifone M10 which has a voice file not being read by the device when i go to settings and want to select the vpm file.It has only Emily,Danile and british showing up as options but i have another file-Hindi_.vpm,which came with the device.
Any idea why its not showing the option to select hindi as the voice?

For Non-TTs voices you can create your own using http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/ontheroad/voicestud... The Garmin Garage has several non-TTS voice options.

I want two things on my Noovie..

1. I would like a soft(ish) "*ping*" before the voice starts as an attention getter. Not to mention that when we were all riding in the car at night and three of us were asleep, the damn voice scared us all awake.
2. I want a (please accept my apologies now, no insult intended) "Jewish Mother" one. Y'know, instead of "Recalculating" I want "Go ahead! Don't listen to me! Make more work for me, I'll find another route!" and stuff like that.

If anyone comes up with either/both from this idea, all I want in return is a free copy for my machine.

I used to listen to him but since the last software update he is gone. I tried to download that voice but it's not available any longer.

You can do that now with Turboccc TTSvoice editor.

Not really since I don't have the ability to fake that dialect (nor am I funny at it) and the software mentioned only runs on a limited system.

Voices? Yeah.. I hear'em all the time. Wait! There's one talking to me now. You want me to WHAT? No.. NO! Go away. Voices? There's another one. Please.. please? No more. Please.. call a Doctor.

Ahhh.. what were you saying about wanting to hear voices?

Nuvi1300 (Who can't stop hearing those voices in his head.) WTGPS

I get a kick out of the way they say the spanish street names, lol