Garmin custom voice alerts not working on nuvi 3760t

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

I have a Garmin nuvi 3760t
im getting very frustrated trying to add custom voice alerts for speed cameras, i have tried adding the alerts in mp3 format which the poi loader accepts alongside the speed cams and images but still getting the bong bong sound instead of the voice alert , i have also tried changing the format to mono wav format and including the sox file , this comes up as unable to convert audio file when using poi loader so i get the cams and images but still the bong bong alert,
im now stuck it doesent seem to want to do it ,
am i doing something wrong ?? is there a setting in the 3760t that i need to set ?? please help its driving me mad !! Mad

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Im a new Garmin user and have just bought the new slimline Nuvi 3760t
im having alot of trouble getting the custom voice warnings for speed cams to work ,
tried both ways described in the how to section of the download page ie : mp3 alongside cams and images , poi loader accepted this but the voices didnt work still get the bong bong noise .
also converted the voices to wav mono format and loaded cams and images with the sox.exe file too poi loader error message at the end of loading couldnt convert wav files so got the same again cams and images work but still get the bong bong sound
the help file in poi loader states mp3 files can be associated with custom poi's so why wont it work ??
please help its driving me mad !! Mad

is there a setting in the nav itself i need to change ie: single tone or continous tone or off ??
any ideas anyone ?

Darren

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

i coverted the mp3 files to mono wav format with nbfree mp3 to wav converter, after doing this i sent them to my garmin folder along with the speed cam data ( speed zoned ) and sox.exe file , installed with poi loader and the sound files still did not work poi loader said couldnt convert audio files ??

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

if you want to look at the converter i used its here:
http://www.nbxaudio.com/download.htm
its very simple and worked well the only thing i didnt know was what format and how many bits the mp3 files should be converted too ?

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject:

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

nope just tried stereo wav format at 16k ( wont go higher) and that didnt work either , it seems poi loader accepts mp3 to convert but when it converts it and sends it to the nuvi it doesent work,
every time ive tried to send anything other than mp3 down the poi loader it says "unable to convert C:\Garmin/pocketgps_uk_specs_30.wav to the proper format therefore the audio file was not transferred."
i think my version of poi loader has a converter built in ?? its the latest version

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:08 pm Post subject:

I don't think 16k sample rate will work. You'll need to try a different convertor (or a real editor prog. like Audacity)

Darren · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject:

As per the instructions on the download page here, the recommended editor is Audacity. It's a free download and can output files in the correct format.

Audacity can be downloaded here.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject:

Iirc it's 44 MHz mono

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

ok.... cleared all old poi's from unit then exported the files to mono wave format 44mhz using audacity as recommended added them to my poi folder c/garmin along with zoned speed cams and loaded using poi loader again and once again poi loader is saying cannot convert to correct file format and so didnt upload audio files to the unit !!
any more ideas ??

Darren · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:37 pm Post subject:

Can you zip up the files you converted and send to me? darren[at]pocketgpsworld.com

I'll take a look and report back - most likely tomorrow now.
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pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

file sent mate
thanks for looking into it for me
Ian

dales · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:21 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

You need to put the sox.exe in the folder where PoiLoader sits (eg C:\Garmin).

(It won't work if you put sox.exe in your folder with the speed cameras and .wav files).

Dales.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject:

Pitch1969 what is the exact error message you get?

pitch1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2010 Posts: 9

Thanks Dales
i was putting the sox.exe in the same file as the cams etc , i think they should clarify that the sox file goes into the poi loader file , ie in my case its
C/program files/garmin !!
just trying it now see if it works fingers crossed
Ian

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