free voice gps

[InvincibleLiving]

Originally Posted by havoc911

ok so out of 5 stars i give this program 4. pro's and con's. It talks! BEST THING EVER. cons.... the only map that works... sucks. depending what direction you going the street names might be upside down. i have to soft reset everytime to get it to read my gps.

Can some one cook something up that would integrate the voice on to live or google??

ALSO I HAVE A SPRINT 6800 BUT DOWNLOADED TITAN CRAZER SOFtWEAR..was this one the correct download???.what are the other mogul users useing the windows 5 or 6?? i didnt see any anything fot htc 6800...

i followed the advice of someone in the thread that said to use the Touch version... i really do want to know why google and livesearch dont have voice yet!

[havoc911]

can u give us a crash course how to add custom voice..thanks


GEEKS RULE!

[mobo]

Could people please post their arrow replacements, x wing etc....

Mobo

[Lt_TAZ]

I almost got it working on my Titan, GPS is finding me and if I want to go from point A to B it will show me the way and talk, the only problem I have is that no map will show at all.

[roopull]

Originally Posted by mobo

Could people please post their arrow replacements, x wing etc....

Mobo

Mine has part of my username under it.

If you want something personalized, I'll make you one... just let me know.

[JoePuetoRico]

nice !!!! great find!!

[roopull]

Originally Posted by havoc911

ALSO I HAVE A SPRINT 6800 BUT DOWNLOADED TITAN CRAZER SOFtWEAR..was this one the correct download???.what are the other mogul users useing the windows 5 or 6?? i didnt see any anything fot htc 6800...

I DLd the version for the Touch, but there's a version for generic Windows Moble 5 & 6, too.

Originally Posted by havoc911

can u give us a crash course how to add custom voice..thanks
GEEKS RULE!

Not sure how familiar you are with things, so this may sound too elementary. Bare with me.


First, connect your phone & open Activesync.
Hit Tools & "Explore Pocket PC."
Open "My Windows Moble-Based Device"
Open Program Files
Open amAzeGPS
Open sound_normal

There, before you, are all the sound files. They're .AMR files, playable with Quicktime. If you don't have Quicktime, it's a free download. Just Google it & install it on your PC (NOT your phone, LOL.)

The next thing you'll need is a program that can record your voice as a .wav file. I use Audacity. It's free, too.

The last program you'll need is something to convert the .wav file to a .amr file.
Here's a free one...
http://www.download.com/3055-2194_4-...?tag=pdl-redir

Pick out the file you want to replace. 001 is the lady's voice saying "Drive Carefully."

So, copy it from the sound_normal folder to your desktop or another folder. You'll want to save this so that you can revert back to it if you ever want to.

Now, open Audacity & record whatever sound you want... perhaps you saying, "Hurry the heck up, slowpoke!" Save the file as a .wav.

Now, open the AMR converter, then open the .wav file you just created & convert it. Save the converted file to a different folder and name it "001.AMR." Now, copy this new file to the sound_normal folder you have open from Activesync.


When you open amAze and begin navigating, the new sound should play.
For some reason, mine required a soft reset.



Just a note... you can have it play a snippet of a song. Metallica's Fuel is a good option!


Hope this helps!

[roopull]

Oops... just realized the link to the .amr converter doesn't work.
Try this link:
http://www.formatoz.com/

[InvincibleLiving]

Thanks for the quick tutorial! will make it easy for us to tweak this to our hearts content!

[roopull]

In regards to my little tutorial on replacing the default voice prompts, this site allows you to type in text & have the computer speak the words.

Play around with the punctuation & spelling to get things to sound right... also, try the various voices from the drop down menu.
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php