voice alerts

[Governor312]

Found out my nuvi has not got a mp3 player, so can i download the voice alerts and convert them to wav with nero or something then put them into the garmin folder and upload??

Seem to have seen in a post something about a sox file needed, what is this and will i need it to upload the voice files??

[johalareewi]

You might be interested in dbPoweramp for converting audio files...

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

[dales]

I used Audacity (freeware) to convert to wav.

See here for where to get sox.exe

Dales

[Governor312]

DO i need to download this SOX EXE file into my garmin folder and what is it for???

And if i just convert the voice files to wav and add them to the folder along with this sox file, i take it i just then upload again with my poi loader?

[dales]

Without sox.exe you will most likely get an error message and no result. You put it in your C/Garmin folder (or wherever you have put your POI loader).

The voice files go in the folder with all your POIs. Upload the whole lot at once with POI loader.

Dales

[Governor312]

I Have downloaded Audacity, can anyone tell me how i now convert the mp3 files to wav?? Sorry this seems complicated for me, im not a tecno geek, step by step if you can help

[BigPerk]

I can't guarantee this, as I'm about as clued up as you, and used the well known method of Trial & Error. But it worked in my case (as long as I haven't forgotten any steps). Worth a try while the gurus line up (I suggest you experiment with just one voice file first to see if it works)

In Audacity:

- File-Open the MP3 voice file;

- there will be a trace of the sound, with a box on the left which has the file name in it, and some info about the data (eg the rate in Hz); click on the file name;

- in the drop doen menu, set Sample Format to 32-bit Float, and Rate to 16000Hz;

- save (just in case) - I don't THINK it will overwrite the original MP3 file as its a different format, but use a slightly different file name, or a different folder, to be safe)

- export as WAV, say to a folder you've created to hold the WAV files;

- try it on the satnav;

- if it works, do the same with the other files. I think you can do a number at once, eg all those in a folder) but I'm not sure;

- if it doesn't work, keep checking this thread !

Good Luck
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David
(Navigon 70 Live, Nuvi 360)

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