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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: POI & Guidance Volume Adjustment |
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Is there any way to reduce guidance volume while retaining poi/safety camera volumes at a reasonable level? |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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No, afraid not.
I have been badgering TomTom to give us this option for ages.
(eg see
HERE)
All they did was make it worse when they added text to speech voices which are louder then the normal ones.. POI warnings that matched the ordinary navigation voices OK are now too quiet when you've turned the TTS voice down to a good level.
What I really want is:
...but that's only a mock up I sent to them, I'm afraid.
But please do complain to TomTom about it, that's the only way we might get anything done about it. |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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That would be ideal & I'll certainly be complaining to TomTom, but by all accounts is seems that TomTom live in their own little world & belive that customers are just nuisance, so I won't hold my breath |
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alanji Lifetime Member
Joined: Sep 04, 2006 Posts: 179 Location: Somerset
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: POI & Guidance Volume Adjustment |
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IanS100 wrote: | Is there any way to reduce guidance volume while retaining poi/safety camera volumes at a reasonable level? |
There is a 'voice' downloadable from Home, which silences guidance volume (but not warnings), which I find useful - I think it is called "Silence". If it is possible to silence maybe it is possible to reduce volume?
I found a way to do it on my PDA/Nav 5 but cannot remember what I did. _________________ Alan
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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I'm guessing that this overwrites the voice files with blank ones called 'Silence' so getting a voice back would be a case of reverting back to Liz or whatever. Maybe a full set of Liz files numbered 1 - 10, all sampled to different volumes. It is a solution but a bit fiddly while driving. I was hoping for something more like the slider bar arrangement suggested by Andy_P. I like having the TomTom there and the route displayed but it would be really good to turn it down/off occasionally without losing Liz all together & without turning down speed camera warnings. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't mind muting it completely...whst model/software are you on?
My Go720 on v7 has an option to "Disable voice" in Change preferences/Voice Preferences, but AFAIK this menu only appears on the x20 and x30 models with v7. No idea if it is on v8 for the One... |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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It's a 520 running NavCore 8 & v 7.20 (IIRC) maps - I'll have a look if I can disable it when I get back to the car - cheers |
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trevor.dowle Lifetime Member
Joined: 16/06/2003 05:22:14 Posts: 412
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: POI & Guidance Volume Adjustment |
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IanS100 wrote: | Is there any way to reduce guidance volume while retaining poi/safety camera volumes at a reasonable level? |
You could always resample the POI voices using Ability (or similar) save them again with a higher volume. _________________ Regards
Trev Dowle
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: POI & Guidance Volume Adjustment |
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trevor.dowle wrote: |
You could always resample the POI voices using Ability (or similar) save them again with a higher volume. |
'Fraid not, mate.
I did that already, when I remade them all for the download page.
Any more and they distort, some are already!
(P.S. did you mean "Audacity"? ) |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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I tried 'Disable Voice' & it does exactly that, for everything - Safety Cameras, POI the lot - so it's back to the drawing board |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Ahh, I was assuming you were using recorded voices for the camera warnings. They will still continue OK.
The "Disable voice" will mute the navigation instructions and anything else you have set to use the TTS voice
If you use one of the voice sets from HERE for your camera warnings, all will be well. |
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Calomax Lifetime Member
Joined: Sep 30, 2005 Posts: 988 Location: St Martin's, Guernsey
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: |
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If you want the instructions to be quieter than the camera warnings, try using Liz Whitaker's warnings. She's so strident that she made me jump every time she spoke.
I used Kate from this site in France and she was great, much quieter and more gentle, but I don't think she is available for the UK database. If not, next time I am coming to the UK I'll try the other voices from this site and hope they are better than Liz. _________________ TT Go Essential |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Andy_P wrote: | Ahh, I was assuming you were using recorded voices for the camera warnings. They will still continue OK.
The "Disable voice" will mute the navigation instructions and anything else you have set to use the TTS voice
If you use one of the voice sets from HERE for your camera warnings, all will be well. |
I'm using Liz v2 speedzoned for camera alerts & Kathy (I think) with her Irish lilt for navigation, but from what you say above Liz should have remained audible, but she didn't. As soon as I Enabled Voices' again everything returned to normal again ??? |
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Mullet Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Ian, check your PM. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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IanS100 wrote: |
I'm using Liz v2 speedzoned for camera alerts & Kathy (I think) with her Irish lilt for navigation, but from what you say above Liz should have remained audible, but she didn't. As soon as I Enabled Voices' again everything returned to normal again ??? |
Strange... here's what happens with mine:
If I select a Non Text to Speech navigation voice (Tim), and have added ogg file camera alerts (the "Simon" set):
Enable voice - get both
Disable voice - still get camera warnings.
If I select a Text to Speech navigation voice (Simon), with added ogg file camera alerts (the "Simon" set):
Enable voice - get both
Disable voice - still get camera warnings.
...which is exactly what you want.
If I select a Text to Speech navigation voice (Simon), and create Text to Speech camera alerts (also Simon):
Enable voice - get both
Disable voice - get nothing
Are you SURE, you aren't using text to speech warnings.
Still, maybe Mullet has squeezed an extra dB or two out of something somehow? Gonna share?
(Edited to sort out the quote properly)
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