Anyone know how to create a voice for garmin 350?
Tue, 10/23/2007 - 8:26pm
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 16 years
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I was wondering how one would go about creating a whole new voice for the Garmin 350? Anyone try to do this?
I would like to take out "Jill" or "Emily" and put in my favorite lady's voice... (my wife).
But have not found our the concept of how to do that.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
New Voice
It would be cool to have a robotic voice!
From a previous thread...
"Over at http://pocketgpsworld.com, you'll find a discussion thread and a program to do just that! ... Apparently, the 'normal' voices are just .WAV files assembled into one container. A guy (Ash10) has written a program to dismantle the container and re-assemble it afterwards. Obviously, while it's dismantled, you can meddle with the individual .WAV files. Replacing "Recalculating" with just silence, has certainly been done.
The Text-to-Speech voices are a different kettle of fish though. They appear to contain the actual speech engine as well as the voice - I think they're conceptually like a .DLL"
Original thread is here
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TTS (Text-to-Speech voices)
I was wondering how one would go about creating a whole new voice for the Garmin 350? Anyone try to do this?
I would like to take out "Jill" or "Emily" and put in my favorite lady's voice... (my wife).
But have not found our the concept of how to do that.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
You can modify TTS voices by using a text editor and replace the voice statement with one containing the same number of characters. See the instructions at the POI Verifier website.
RT
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