POI Warning Sound Volume

Spiggy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 40

Is there any way to increase the volume on the POI warnings on a TTG 520?

Failing that, can anyone recommend where I can download some high pitch/volume sounds.

I find that although I can hear directions quite well above road noise and radio, I sometimes can't hear the speed cam warnings.

Anita · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

How about the Liz version 2 with loud siren from here?
Edited to add: Assuming you're using the speed camera database from here and not the TomTom one!
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Spiggy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 40

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I was really looking for just the sound without the voice, but it might be OK. With the amount of cameras inour area the voice message might nt get a chance to finish Shocked

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

The volume is set as high as possible for all the file sets, obviously some voices will "cut through" a bit better than others, so try some alternatives.

I find they are just loud enough to compare with a "normal" navigation voice" but TT have done something sneaky to get the "text to speech" navigation voices louder (but horribly distorted to my ears), so if you set the volume OK for those, any alert sound is a bit quieter still.

I have been badgering TomTom about the volume inconsistencies for ages and it is getting much worse now that we have hands free, extra mp3 players, FM transmission, TTS voices etc.

Basically there is only the one "overall" level control (except for a "hidden" one for incoming hands-free calls incoming level). This REALLY needs to change...

What I'd like to see is a simple "volumes" page (like you get on PC sound cards) with separate sliders for
Navigation Voice, Sound Effects+Warnings, Hands-Free calls, mp3 player/audio books.
The normal volume control would then adjust ONLY the volume of the internal speaker.

If you agree, I'd really appreciate it if you *and anyone else*, could complain to TomTom about it. It's the only way that anything gets done.

So far, all TT have done as a quick fix for the poor FM transmission quality, is to completely disable the volume control on the mp3 player, so whatever it LOOKS like it's doing, the volume is actually fixed at 100% Mad

Spiggy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 40

Where is the 'hidden' one for hands free please

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

Spiggy, it's not really hidden, but you might not realise its there.

When you are actually in a call, the normal-looking volume slider is actually only controlling the incoming call volume.
But if you were hoping to increase it, I'm afraid it is usually on 100% already!

Also, I've just looked back over your previous post, and saw you were after JUST a sound for your camera alerts.
If that's the case, have a listen to some of the preview demo files of the voice sets on the PGPSW sound files page (http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-ogg-files.php) and if there's a sound you like, I'll split it off the voice for you.

Spiggy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 40

Thanks for the offer Andy. I'm testing the files that you suggested and they don't seem too bad (even with the voice).

Watch this space.

sven1 · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

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